Big Things Quotes - Page 7

• Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

  Kevin Roberts

  Business, Passion, Agency

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• There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Opportunity, Perfect, Leader

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.44, Knopf

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• The big thing is to make this country - quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They're American citizens.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, Gay, People

  "Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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• The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Leadership, Men

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• If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

  Deepak Chopra

  Brother, Team, Sibling

  "Chopra Brothers: Separate Paths But Common Bond". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 29, 2013.

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• Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.

  Wangari Maathai

  Peace, People, Tree

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• Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Family, Kindness

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• Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

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• You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

  Irving Kristol

  Commitment, Ideas, Leader

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• To achieve big things you have to have big dreams.

  Conrad Hilton

  Dream, Achieve, Bigs

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• I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.

  Heidi Baker

  Compassion, People, Great Love

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• I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Hard Work, Commitment

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• A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Giving Up, Wine, Intelligent

  "The Victorian Age in Literature" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, University of Notre Dame Press, (p. 20), 1963.

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• Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Echoes, Storm

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• I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

  Tony Dorsett

  Football, Strong, Practice

  "Dallas Cowboys Legend Tony Dorsett: Bleacher Report Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Henry, bleacherreport.com. JANUARY 17, 2011.

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• Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!

  Jessica Simpson

  Mom, Mother, Giving Up

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

  Richard Hamming

  Errors, Small Problems, Tree

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• What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

  Alain de Botton

  Tiny, Disappointing, Bigs

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• Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Graduation, Great Love

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.34, Random House

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• One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Time, Nice, Thinking

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Men, Feet

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.12, Bottom of the Hill

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• Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"

  Eve Hewson

  Teacher, Jobs, College

  Source: collider.com

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• The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.

  Kamerion Wimbley

  Football, Jobs, Fall

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• I want a girl who lets me do my own thing, but who is going to be by my side the whole time, because I know I'd be supportive of her. And kissing is a big thing for me! You have to be a good kisser.

  Daren Kagasoff

  Girl, Kissing, Supportive

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I've been part of really big things that are amazing, but I haven't taken on that responsibility yet. So I don't want to sell myself short by having a kid and then regret not doing what I set out to do.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Regret, Taken, Responsibility

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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