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Quotes about detail
Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. (Colton Charles Caleb)
Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things. (Colton Charles Caleb)
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. (Colton Charles Caleb)
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. (Colton Charles Caleb)
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. (Colton Charles Caleb)
In a major matter no details are small. (Colton Charles Caleb)
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. (Colton Charles Caleb)
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. (Colton Charles Caleb)
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. (Colton Charles Caleb)
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail. (Colton Charles Caleb)
Measure three times before you cut once. (Colton Charles Caleb)
Carelessness is worse than a thieve. (Colton Charles Caleb)
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. (Colton Charles Caleb)
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. (Colton Charles Caleb)
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. (Colton Charles Caleb)
I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. (Colton Charles Caleb)
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