I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
Movies are details. Movies are billions of details that come into a certain moment. So with all the years and months and weeks and days and minutes of preparation, then finally you're shooting and it all comes down to these moments when you're shooting, which is sort of insane when you think about it. The details make a difference.
[Journalists are] more attentive to the minute hand of history than to the hour hand.
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.
I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.
Facts and particulars annoy me.
To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
