I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else
The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.
Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go.
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.
It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.
Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.
I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.
Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
The drives you take for granted ("I'm a heterohomosexual," "I'm attracted to childrenadults," "I'm aggressivenot aggressive," and so on) depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery.
So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.
I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.
It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.
All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.