Big Things Quotes - Page 3

• One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.

  Aziz Ansari

  New York, Missing, Burgers

  "Aziz Ansari Interview". Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

  Peter Ustinov

  Experts, Littles, Facts

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• Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Believe, Achievement

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.102, Tuttle Publishing

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• Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

  Roger Enrico

  Creativity, Small Changes, Bigs

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• It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.

  Suzanne Smith

  New Year, Halloween, Years

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• Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo tip with her.

  Nick Kelsh

  Photography, Kids, Simple

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• There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.

  Don Bassingthwaite

  Friendship, Betrayal, Eye

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• [The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, Godwilling.

  Uday Hussein

  God, Real, Son

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• If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Retirement, Over You

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• Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

  John D. Rockefeller

  Art, Mind, Done

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• The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

  Michele Bachmann

  Hoaxes, Global Warming, Nonsense

  "Elected Officials Deny Climate Science as Climate-Related Losses Grow" by Shawn Lawrence Otto, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible

  Karl Malone

  Marijuana, League, Guy

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• I am afraid that I do not hold with the theory of 'global warming' - there will always be climate change....Big thing here is - do we know what we are doing that is bringing about climate change? At present the answer to this is NO.

  Kevin Warwick

  Climate, Answers, Global Warming

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• Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

  Damien Hirst

  Children, Thinking, Trying

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• I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

  Randy Hultgren

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "The Morning After: Randy Hultgren Discusses His ‘No’ Vote on Debt Ceiling". Interview with Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. August 2, 2011.

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• Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

  Thomas Sowell

  Deception, Littles, Way

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.323, Hoover Press

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• When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Glowing, World

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• We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Dream, Thinking, Challenges

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• The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

  Phil Collen

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I'm hoping there's cohesion in these tracks. Some of them were made weeks ago, some were made in 2010, but they've all stood out as one big thing I want to give to everyone. The concept behind No Plans references a few of concerns: having no plans with school, no plans with jobs, and no plans for the future. I'm hoping these songs can help you forget about those concerns, at least for 30 minutes of your day.

  Ryan Hemsworth

  Song, Jobs, School

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• If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

  John Wooden

  Enough, Bigs, Happens

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• You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Believe, People, Feelings

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.130, Hawthorne Books

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• If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

  William H. McRaven

  Motivational, Military, Littles

  "Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World". Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.

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• The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about

  Cal Ripken, Sr.

  Baseball, Games, Worry

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• I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.

  Joe Bastianich

  Simple, Breakfast, Pasta

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