368 Quotes About Details

If we go down the rabbit hole of our unconsciousness and try to unravel the knotty points of our life story we may encounter a bunch of hidden niceties or emotional stowaways. Forgotten details in the windmill of our mind may daintily reveal, where things might have gone wrong. (“I wonder what went wrong.”)

The deeper we dig into our field the more we know about its details

He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.

The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really just say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?

Knowing the right detail gets you a great return. Ignore them and you just crash & burn.

Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.

Don't think about absolutes, think about the details. Every day, every hour that you can maintain an information asymmetry, you do it.

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life.