Smallest Quotes - Page 4

• Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

  Paula Fox

  Teacher, Heart, Inspire

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• Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

  Johnny Carson

  Travel, Home, Men

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• If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.

  Leroy Hood

  Focus, Details, Bigs

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• Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Men, Personality

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• The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Humility, Done

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• The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

  Horace

  Stupid, Water, Literature

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• Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Details

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

  William James

  Character, Fate, Evil

  "The Principles of Psychology". Book by William James, 1890.

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• My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .

  Eknath Easwaran

  Stars, Flower, Grandmother

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• Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

  William Zinsser

  Stories, Want, Emotion

  William Zinsser “The Writer Who Stayed”, Paul Dry Books

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• Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Achievement, Way, Great Success

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• The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Liberty, May, Libertarian

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• Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Trivial Things

  "As a Peace-loving Global Citizen" by Sun Myung Moon, (p. 139), 2009.

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• Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sacrifice, Opportunity, Missing

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• If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives.

  Donna VanLiere

  Use, Our Lives, Ifs

  Donna VanLiere (2016). “The Christmas Collection: The Christmas Shoes, The Christmas Blessing, and The Christmas Hope”, p.408, St. Martin's Press

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• Think of hope the minute you feel miserable with your life. Take up the habit of finding joy in the smallest of things in life. The misery you feel now will be a strong foundation for your future and you will become someone with an invaluable life. Also, hold the hand of the person next to you. Don’t think that you’re the only one living in this world. Don’t grow your sorrow on your own and ask for help from the person next to you.

  Jaejoong

  Strong, Thinking, Things In Life

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• I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.

  Tara Subkoff

  Cancer, Grateful, Healing

  "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.

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• I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music.  Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness.  But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.

  Ernst Bacon

  Art, Book, Phases

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Integrity, Humility, Responsibility

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.

  Reinhard Heydrich

  People, Maids, Want

  "Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, (p. 103), 1956.

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• Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, Animal, Cities

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• My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Grandmother, My Grandmother

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• Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Eye, Men, Afterlife

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.235, Routledge

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• I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.

  Lord Kelvin

  Future, Expectations, Molecules

  "The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation" by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, (p. 236), 1984.

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• My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

  Coco Chanel

  Reason, Dense, Volume

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