Background Image
Details are our business as writers. your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere
-Joan Didion
Please Wait....
Translating....

Details Are Our Business As Writers. Your

Joan Didion
Details are our business as writers. your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere
Views: 4
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Heart Details Leap

More From Joan Didion

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. business is made up of details and i notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. success is the sum of detail. it might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as i have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.
Business Littles Might
I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and god's. much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. when i think, "you need to get a job, i want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," i am in your business. when i'm worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when i will die, i am in god's business. if i am mentally in your business or in god's business, the effect is separation.
Jobs Business War
Real writers-that is, capital w writers-rarely make much money. their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than writers. the letters i personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. i always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that i couldn't have written them myself.
Real Writing Letters
The book [night manager] is amazing. it is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many secrets and details that don't necessarily get shot in an adaptation. they give you a cushion underneath everything. the detail in the character, the detail in the tone.
Book Character Night
The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.
Lying Emotional Space
There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. there is a phrase, "the devil is in the details." one can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. it's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. i like to work from details to big pictures.
Senior Zero Devil
Similar Quotes
The first book that really knocked me out was the 'brothers karamazov.' i read it when i was a senior in high school.
Senior Brother Book
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Funny Graduation Senior
A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. they feel comfortable in that environment. to me, a set feels like that. the one thing that i do know is that, as long as i'm prepared, i know this environment and this world.
Senior Football Running
Many seniors understand that social security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. but most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. so it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.
Senior Retirement Thinking

Trending Author

Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg
Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca
John Hoeven
John Hoeven
Sean Connery
Sean Connery
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin
Brad Bird
Brad Bird
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation