Clifton Fadiman Quotes

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.

I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

I've made a career of being precise.

I nitpick details.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects.

I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.

You look at Taylor Swift, and every 'i' is dotted, every story is finished.

I have never, ever met a performer that was a stickler to critical moments and moves as they fit. Savage was a perfectionist.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.

I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.

When the spaces are small, the crosses have to be good.

I'm very meticulous.

I am a perfectionist, and I set high standards.

I am a control freak. I want everything to be prim and proper.

I always think about the small details because I need to improve more and more.

If I don't understand something properly, every single component, it really bugs me.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist.

I have an eye for detail.

I'm extremely accurate; that's one of my biggest strengths.