Close Examination Quotes

If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.

If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

Guys pay extra attention to detail. They are looking at every little thing on the scouting report.

It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.

I'm very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.

Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.

Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head.

I believe in focusing on details.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

I watch a lot of tape. Anytime I have a match on TV, I watch it back, 10-20 times alone.

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.

Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.