- Pattern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Details Quotes
Where the real work actually happens.
This set treats fine points as the real engine behind good work, whether that shows up in a dancer's small sentimental touches or a country's noted appreciation for what is genuinely Important and cared for.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020