Little Things Quotes - Page 29

• It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Adversity, May, Littles

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• And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

  Roger Penrose

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to follow it. It's like there's a spirit, or intuitive network, that comes through all of us, but most people don't take the time to think about it or remember it. These little things pop into our heads - it's just a process of intuition. The initial thought comes in a baby state, and you work on that some more.

  Jim James

  Baby, Writing, Thinking

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• If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

  Pete Seeger

  Years, World, Littles

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• I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  People, Lenses, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

  Margaret Halsey

  Character, People, Littles

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• "Haters only hate things they can't have and the people they can't be. It's just a little thing called jealousy."

  Lil Wayne

  Hater, People, Littles

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• Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.

  Tom Peters

  Integrity, May, Littles

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• My daughter and I are so close. I can describe anything she's doing, the least little thing, and I get all excited about it. It's like medicine. When I come home from work and the first thing I see is her and she runs and jumps in my arms - everything that went bad in the day goes completely out the window. It's like taking a dose of medicine. It makes everything better.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Daughter, Running, Home

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• Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Hate, Thinking

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• It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

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• And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhaps will ever do. But surely ... they would have put it into spirits, or into the Illustrated News, or perhaps cut it into two halves, poor dear little thing, and sent one to Professor Owen, and one to Professor Huxley, to see what they would each say about it.

  Charles Kingsley

  Baby, Science, Cutting

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• No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on experiment but the experimenter knows the many little things that could have gone wrong in the experiment.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  "The Art of Scientific Investigation".

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• It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Lying, Unimportant Things, Evil

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• I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.

  Sue Enquist

  Softball, Team, Loss

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• When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.

  Scott Simon

  Things In Life, Littles, Forget

  Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.215, Macmillan

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• Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Thinking, Discovery, Track

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• We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience when they read it they'll understand. So there were definitely little things we were able to do that specifically leveraged the artists' talents.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Artist, Chinese

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation". Interview with Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Music licensing is a strange business to navigate, and all kinds of little things can drive a price up or down. It's completely fluid, it constantly changes, and there's no list of prices on a menu. Everything is negotiable in every way.

  Liza Richardson

  Littles, Way, Lists

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

  Mother Teresa

  Lying, Faithful, Littles

  "In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories, and Prayers".

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• I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk around with the accent, but those little things change you, whether it's your hair, your clothes, your shoes or a different silhouette. People absolutely look at you differently.

  Anna Torv

  Attitude, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dark, Rude

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• Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

  E. M. Forster

  Niece, Sky, Rose

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• True greatness consists in being great in little things.

  Charles Simmons

  Greatness, Excellence, Littles

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.315

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