We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
Alfred North WhiteheadStichwörter: past think detail generalities
They could argue for hours on almost any subject; they usually agreed on broad conclusions, but disagreed on almost every detail.
Brenda JoyceStichwörter: argue detail dewarren-dynasty conclusions disagree
One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
Burkhard BilgerStichwörter: perception time memory brain aging near-death detail david-eagleman amygdala life-threatening
There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.
Pat ConroyStichwörter: beauty excellence detail
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
Orhan PamukStichwörter: compassion beauty affection mystery color irony attention interest detail
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind."
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)
Stichwörter: writing nature creative-process show-don-t-tell detail
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)
Stichwörter: writing characters creative-process detail generalizations specificity
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.
Natalie GoldbergStichwörter: life experience compassion writing writers write live living poem touch novel moments moment short-story cow paper care pen forever detail examination
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
Paula DanzigerStichwörter: truth pain writing write story forget writer detail silly painful tell embarrassing
The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader please, Laplace was neither Lagrange nor Euler, as every student is made to feel. The second is power and symmetry, the third power and simplicity; the first is power without either symmetry or simplicity. But, nevertheless, Laplace never attempted investigation of a subject without leaving upon it the marks of difficulties conquered: sometimes clumsily, sometimes indirectly, always without minuteness of design or arrangement of detail; but still, his end is obtained and the difficulty is conquered.
Augustus de MorganStichwörter: science truth power beauty genius admiration investigation difficulty simplicity scientists praise design obstacles results mathematics symmetry detail instrument conquer clumsy indirect lagrange laplace pierre-simon-laplace euler leonhard-euler joseph-louis-lagrange
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