Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.
Roman VishniacTag: humans perfection crafts details magnification
The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life.
Richard DiazTiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!
W.G. SebaldIn all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.
Wilkie CollinsTag: trifles importance details
Little details have special talents in creating big problems!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: details
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
Chuck PalahniukTag: truth trick details fine big-picture close-up
The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes detection trifles facts importance details crimes trivialities
But there is yet time to change our ways. Give up all those old discussions, old fights about things which are meaningless, which are nonsensical in their very nature. Think of the last six hundred or seven hundred years of degradation when grown-up men by hundreds have been discussing for years whether we should drink a glass of water with the right hand or the left, whether the hand should be washed three times or four times, whether we should gargle five or six times. What can you expect from men who pass their lives in discussing such momentous questions as these and writing most learned philosophies on them! There is a danger of our religion getting into the kitchen. We are neither Vedantists, most of us now, nor Pauranics, nor Tantrics. We are just "Don't-touchists". Our religion is in the kitchen. Our God is the cooking-pot, and our religion is, "Don't touch me, I am holy". If this goes on for another century, every one of us will be in a lunatic asylum. It is a sure sign of softening of the brain when the mind cannot grasp the higher problems of life; all originality is lost, the mind has lost all its strength, its activity, and its power of thought, and just tries to go round and round the smallest curve it can find.
Swami VivekanandaTag: 1897 details formalism manamadura
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom art poetry intuition nerd nerds autism details nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds
He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in its place. But now he had no place, and the details were everywhere.
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