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  • Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. -- Booker T. Washington
  • Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never! -- Winston Churchill
  • Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. -- Solon
  • But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal. -- Frank Bidart
  • It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left. -- Charles Bukowski
  • It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems. -- Neil Gaiman
  • I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles in atoms, or very large things, like the universe, seem to be running into one queerness after another, from puzzle to puzzle. -- Lewis Thomas
  • You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change. -- Marc Benioff
  • In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. -- Richard Armour
  • Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. -- Isaac Rosenberg
  • Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. -- Brian Ferneyhough
  • In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself. -- Richard Flanagan
  • My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me. -- Jeb Bush
  • I loved doing 'Rock of Ages' in N.Y. and that, but its such a large scale, and so many things go into it. -- Tom Lenk
  • There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications. -- Arthur Erickson
  • We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet. -- Vinton Cerf
  • A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world. -- David Whyte
  • Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain. -- Paul Auster
  • We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business. -- George Pataki
  • The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. -- Michael Pollan
  • I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. -- Kenneth Branagh
  • Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes. -- Demetri Martin
  • There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. -- Aldrich Ames
  • I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to. -- Freeman Dyson
  • Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel? -- Vinod Khosla
  • I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. -- Mary MacLane
  • Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed. -- Rick Riordan
  • It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook. -- Jo Walton
  • Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic. -- Stephen Mansfield
  • I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. -- Isaac Rosenberg
  • The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. -- Hannah More
  • To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things. -- John Haines
  • Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love. -- Elizabeth George
  • Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way. -- Donald O. Hebb
  • Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on. -- Rory Sutherland
  • Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. -- Alexandra David-Neel
  • If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. -- Miyamoto Musashi
  • Large corporate entities are more untrusted than trusted. And they've earned that by the way they've done things. -- Ronald M. Shaich
  • Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party. -- Andrew Carnegie
  • The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks. -- Tom Peters
  • When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things. -- Sean Penn
  • I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary. -- Paul Emsley
  • If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well. -- Etty Hillesum
  • If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well. -- Charles R. Swindoll
  • A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it. -- Phil Donahue
  • We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse. -- Adam Savage
  • We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large. -- Criss Jami
  • Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for large fries. -- Mark Patinkin
  • Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can. -- Bill Bryson
  • Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues! -- Margaret Deland
  • Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change." -- Albert Einstein
  • The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions. -- Frederick Sommer
  • Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading. -- Nikola Tesla
  • It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space. -- Hans Hofmann
  • Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past. -- Peter Diamandis
  • We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn. -- Jonathan Ive
  • The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas. -- J. P. Guilford
  • ...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes. -- Tim Bray
  • Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that. -- Bryan Singer
  • A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large. -- John Trudell
  • Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure. -- Cynthia Kauffman
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