“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Arthur Conan Doyle166
Scottish physician and author 1859–1930Related quotes
“Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.”
Larry Niven book The Ringworld Engineers
Source: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 68
“Trust the first impression that a person's spontaneous look conveys to you. It never fails.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Fidatevi della prima impressione che vi trasmette lo sguardo spontaneo di una persona. Non fallisce mai.
Source: prevale.net
Arthur C. Clarke book The Fountains of Paradise
Source: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 2 “The Engineer” (p. 10)
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in Just Before Dark : Collected Nonfiction (1999) by Jim Harrison, p. 39
“Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!”
Valentine Blacker (1778–1826) British colonial administrator
From the poem "Oliver's Advice" http://books.google.com/books?id=JmEaAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Oliver%27s+Advice%22+Cromwell&q=%22Oliver%27s+Advice%22+Cromwell#v=snippet&q=%22Oliver's%20Advice%22%20Cromwell&f=false by William Blacker, published under the pseudonym Fitz Stewart in The Dublin University Magazine, December 1834, p. 700. This line by a different Colonel Blacker is paraphrased from an attribution to Oliver Cromwell (hence the poem's title). <br class="br">Misattributed
“Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.”
Henry Alford (1810–1871) English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 603.
