Small Things Quotes - Page 3

• I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

  Neil Gaiman

  Childhood, Missing, Way

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

  Etty Hillesum

  Creativity, Deals, Wells

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• I will be small in small things, great among great.

  Pindar

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

  John O'Hara

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  John O'Hara (1934). “Appointment in Samarra”

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• Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

  Arthur Lynch

  Life, Powerful, Battle

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

  Albrecht Durer

  Art, Men, Years

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• I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Happiness, Things In Life, Littles

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (1989). “14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book”, Workman Publishing

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• Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Wheels, Speed, Enough

  Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition

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• Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Ambition, Ideas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Airports, Littles, Misery

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• A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Ocean, Evil, World

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.66

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• You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

  George Eliot

  Men, World, Suits

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

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• They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Giving, Smoking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Mind, Remember

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, genius.com.

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• Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.

  Eduardo Galeano

  People, World, Small Places

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• Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!!
  You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Thinking, Average, Add

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• Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Smell, Touching, Texture

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• If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Stay Positive, Waiting

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• In physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, "Well, I need to react to that." Another reason for the increased prominence of the climate-change issue is the Paris Agreement itself. It's not a small thing when just about every nation in the entire world comes together and makes an historic agreement like this. It's a big deal. And the old cliché "The train is leaving the station" kind of applies.

  Al Gore

  People, Leaving, Together

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Appreciation, Betrayal

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well.

  Eric Thomas

  Greatness, Done, Wells

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• The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

  T. Harv Eker

  Thinking, People, Obstacles

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• I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Giving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you find it easier to go bigger rather than the other way around. I think a lot of architects have struggled with small things. Whereas if you start small, it's easier to get bigger.

  Marc Newson

  Thinking, Giving, Jewelry

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• Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.

  Michael Phelps

  Two, Focus, Needs

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