If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
In reading, one should notice and fondle details.
I study these bills. I read them carefully. If it makes sense, I'll sign on them. If not, I don't.
Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
The truth is in the details.
I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.
Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.
The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
Take a second look, you might have not seen it all.
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
