Big Things Quotes - Page 5

• When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Learning, Persistence, Simple

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• If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

  Pete Seeger

  Change, Spring, Years

  "Pete Seeger: How can I keep from singing?". Interview With Sarah van Gelder, www.csmonitor.com. January 31, 2014.

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• The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.

  James Altucher

  Things In Life, People, Focus

  "Why Twitter is Worth $12 Billion". www.jamesaltucher.com.

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• When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Playing Music, Bigs, No Money

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• To achieve big things you have to have big dreams.

  Conrad Hilton

  Dream, Achieve, Bigs

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• You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

  Irving Kristol

  Commitment, Ideas, Leader

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• When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

  Richard Hamming

  Errors, Small Problems, Tree

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• If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

  Deepak Chopra

  Brother, Team, Sibling

  "Chopra Brothers: Separate Paths But Common Bond". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 29, 2013.

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• The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Leadership, Men

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• The big thing is to make this country - quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They're American citizens.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, Gay, People

  "Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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• I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.

  Heidi Baker

  Compassion, People, Great Love

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• I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Hard Work, Commitment

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• I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

  Tony Dorsett

  Football, Strong, Practice

  "Dallas Cowboys Legend Tony Dorsett: Bleacher Report Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Henry, bleacherreport.com. JANUARY 17, 2011.

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• It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Class, Excellence, Details

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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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• My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

  Hans Selye

  Careers, Advice, Mind

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• I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.

  Dominic Savio

  God, Religious, Christian Inspirational

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• If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.

  John G. Lake

  Love, Son, Compassion

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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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• You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ... I don't like overdubs, never liked them. ... The music business doesn't interest me anymore...Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. ... I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

  Lou Reed

  Believe, Play, People

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  One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

  Edith Wharton

  Life And Death, Curiosity, Intellectual

  A Backward Glance "A First Word" (1934)

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• The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on HBO in my hometown is huge. To be great you have to fight the best. Chad has beaten the best so these are the type fights I want to take. I will put on a great show for all the fans that come out to Oracle Arena.

  Andre Ward

  Taken, Fighting, Hbo

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• Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.

  Joe Jonas

  Being Yourself, People, Understanding

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• It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.

  Kevin Jonas

  Differences, People, Bigs

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• It's said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words. I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized profusely - not once but three times. So what's the problem? It's four years ago. Do I need to apologize again?

  Mel Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Drunk

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

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