Big Things Quotes - Page 18

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  Walter Isaacson

  Done, Tough, Wonder

  "Walter Isaacson: the right man for the Jobs job". Interview with Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. November 26, 2011.

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• The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.

  Ryan Hall

  Morning, Race, Water

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• Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

  Alan Cumming

  Country, Calendars, Bigs

  "Cumming out on top". Interview with Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2003.

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• Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

  David Sedaris

  Opposites, Stories, Facts

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• I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

  Tony Blair

  Religious, Religion, Belief

  "Transcript of the third night's interview with Tony Blair". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic---about how you can't just dream things.

  Kevin Costner

  Mother, Dream, Work Ethic

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• One of the big things that I focus on is not having regrets, just taking every opportunity I have and going for it.

  Chris Weidman

  Regret, Opportunity, Mma

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• Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Believe, Humor

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.

  Gina Carano

  Dream, Mma, Bigs

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• Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the thing which is going to keep going.

  Robert Dessaix

  War, Writing, Different

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

  Steve Ballmer

  Long, Way, Execution

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• The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

  Richard Bach

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Healthy, Actors

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• Finding places to perform was definitely the biggest challenge. Trying to find my voice over the years was a big thing because when I started I was just doing characters and impressions and that was it.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Character, Years, Voice

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• People feel that the Bible is unequivocal in stating that the age of the earth is very young and so on and so forth, and so the big things get lumped together with the lesser things. And the age of the earth is for example virtually made a touchstone of doctrine, when there's so much evidence out there in science against it.

  John Lennox

  People, Age, Together

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

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• There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and knees. Shoulders are another big thing. We play a physical sport and those are the areas that go.

  Gerad Adams

  Sports, Play, Legs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• People ask what your vision is, what is your big vision? I say 'bhai', I got here by way of selling tea. I am a simple Chhota man. I like focusing on simple and small tasks. I want to accomplish big things for the little guy.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Simple, Men

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• There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!

  William Morris Hunt

  Strength, Light, Looks

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• Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.

  Johnny Carson

  Giving, Worry, Important

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Littles, Little Things, Bigs

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Motivational, Courage, Differences

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• When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Believe, Belief, Praying

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• I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Men, People

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• Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Play, Long

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• The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

  Edward Felten

  Dream, Google, Needs

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