Minors Quotes

• We are minor in everything but our passions.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Laughter, Twilight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Positivity, Suffering

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.112, Penguin

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• Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

  Vince Lombardi (2000). “What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Patience, Virtue

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• Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 28, 2015

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• Some people don't do well simply because they don't feel well.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Wells, Feels

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 16, 2017

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• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

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• Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

  John C. Maxwell

  Church, Needs, Certain

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Life, Christian, Men

  "The Pursuit of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1957.

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• There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

  Pal Benko

  Careers, Psychology, Understanding

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• Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.

  Cyril Burt

  Country, America, Cynical

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• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Airplane, Sweat, Oil

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• Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

  Robertson Davies

  Beauty, Kindness, Important

  "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks".

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• The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Lying, Victory, Triumph

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• The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Meals, Adjustment

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• This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

  Jeri Ryan

  Movie, New Day, Actors

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

  John McGahern

  Attitude, Kissing, Killing

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• When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

  Sigmund Freud

  Decision, Found, Pros And Cons

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• Let no one pray that they know not sorrow,
  Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
  For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow,
  And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
  Through want of a thing does its worth redouble,
  Through hunger's pangs does the feast content,
  And only the heart that has harboured trouble
  Can fully rejoice when joy is sent.
  Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics
  Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife,
  For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics
  Are found in the minor strains of life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sweet, Pain, Grief

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Life's Harmonies”

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• Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, Profound, Ordinary

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• For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Purpose, Serious

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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  Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before it becomes a calamity is an important use of our time. Most people don’t like to make waves and they swallow frustration and bury true feelings, not wanting to compromise temporary tranquility, never realizing that massive turmoil doesn’t start out massive—it grows beneath the skin like a cancer that could have been avoided with early detection.

  T. D. Jakes

  Cancer, Frustration, People

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• I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

  Gerry Cooney

  Baseball, Country, League

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

  Patrick MacGill

  Cutting, Perfect, Attention

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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