Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.
If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.
Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.
Men don't pay attention to small things.
I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
In a major matter no details are small.
Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
Seeing the small is called clarity.
The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
I think the key to the start of any good relationship is to remember how the other person likes their coffee.
Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
The truth seems to love the small print.
Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.
In a major matter, no details are small.
The small details are important if you want to be a good player.
