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• Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked.

  Robert Thurman

  Regret, Attachment, Practice

  Robert Thurman (2011). “The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between”, p.53, Bantam

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• It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

  Marty Stuart

  Gun, Rocks, Guitar

  Song: Hillbilly Rock, Album: Hillbilly Rock

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• I do like our young talent here, but it needs to get better. And we need some better veterans if we can go out and get them. We all get discouraged by losing. I sit there every game and see the little things that happen and you feel like they cost you games. But the reality is that we are still some time away from being what I hope we can be. And that's going to take some good decision-making on our part.

  John Paxson

  Reality, Games, Decision

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• Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

  Plato

  Self, Contentment, Foundation

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• Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Creative, Survival

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• Then with Lucy [Hale], her little thing that I kind of learned from her is her country music because she’s obsessed with country and at the beginning, I wasn’t a huge fan of it, but I was listening to some songs that she plays in the hair and makeup room and she’s also so funny, too. She does these character impersonations and they’re just so funny. Made up characters of course, but she can switch into someone else so fast. I’m always laughing at Lucy and she’s like a little Polly Pocket, you know? The tiny one.

  Shay Mitchell

  Country, Song, Character

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• Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Design, Doe, Purpose

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• There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

  Fanny Fern

  Littles, Hinges, Universe

  "Ruth Hall and Other Writings".

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• How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness. Good is done by degrees. However small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may thus be accomplished by perseverance, even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Opportunity

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• It is important as a mentalist to notice small things about people... little things such as being able to tell if someone is right or left handed by looking at which way their belt is pointing. Looking at a book of matches will tell you if they are right or left handed by the side the matches are removed.... It's important to notice these things because the more you do, the more you will realize that each person has little psychological nuances that tell you a lot about the individual. Doing so will tremendously sharpen your skills.

  Banachek

  Book, Skills, People

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• I want to really start focusing on what I want to accomplish and what it is I want to achieve, but not micromanaging this or that and focusing on the little things.

  Ricky Williams

  Want, Littles, Micromanaging

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• After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.

  Billy Wilder

  Girl, Stars, Real

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• There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

  Peter Ustinov

  Experts, Littles, Facts

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• I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who don't care about the problems of the inner city. We have to fight every day that we get up for every little thing that we get. And so I keep struggling.

  Maxine Waters

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.

  John Waters

  Reading, People, House

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• There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.

  Don Bassingthwaite

  Friendship, Betrayal, Eye

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• Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Rain, Rivers, Giving

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837). “Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.16

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• Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Elements, Littles

  "Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". TIME interview, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.

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• I never did mind about the little things.

  Bridget Fonda

  Mind, Littles

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• I do my own thing. I'm very much in the paradox of things. I enjoy the little things in life, what's big is small and what's small is big. It might not be the coolest thing to do, but it's important to me.

  Katerina Graham

  Things In Life, Important, Littles

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• American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Icons, Culture

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• Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Why Not, Littles, Enjoy

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• The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter who is out there, maybe theyre not going to be as good, quote-unquote, as the starters may be, but the bottom line for us is to make sure were doing the right things.

  Kurt Warner

  Technique, Tuning, Lines

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• Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

  Joyce Meyer

  Confidence, Mean, Choices

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “Eat the Cookie...Buy the Shoes: Giving Yourself Permission to Lighten Up”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.

  James Caan

  Things In Life, Appreciate, Littles

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