"Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work."

-- Arthur Nielsen

#Details Quotes #Watches Quotes #Accuracy Quotes

“Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.”

Source : Joy Hester, Sunday Reed (1997). “Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed”
“There is nothing more powerful than the made up mind.”
“Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.”
“Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. Its always my place to come back and feel normal again.”
“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.”
“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

Source : "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.
“It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.”
“He is inexperienced, but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through.”

Source : "Fab, and Not So Good, Really" by Paul Doyle, Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2007.

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