Little Things Quotes - Page 19

• Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Philosophy, Imagination, Littles

  Alexander von HUMBOLDT (1869). “Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America”, p.288

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• To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

  Don Meyer

  Sports, Winning, Fundamentals

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• The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Good Life, Successful, Deeds

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• Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Running, Hard Work

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.153, U of Nebraska Press

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• Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beauty, Beautiful, Religion

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

  "9/11 was 'worst day' and 'the best day'" by Rudy Giuliani, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hero, Heart, Humble

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• I'm really good at being sarcastic with guys. That's the best way to hang out with them, because that's what guys . They don't want the quiet, prissy little things.

  Jessica Alba

  Sarcastic, Guy, Want

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• Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Progress, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.257, Oxford University Press

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• And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Laughter, Fun

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Relationship, Breathing, Nerves

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• You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger. Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.

  Pat Robertson

  Cutting, Gay, San Francisco

  "Pat Robertson Suggests Gays With AIDS Wear Rings To Cut, Infect Others". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.

  Brad Pitt

  Baby, Needs, Littles

  "My List" by Brad Pitt, www.esquire.com. October 1, 2006.

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• See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

  Laozi

  Badass, Greatness, Simplicity

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

  Euripides

  Gossip, Littles, Tongue

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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• Inches make champions.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Adversity, Champion

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• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley”, p.385

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• This small little thing, which was started to give people a way of life, with love and dedication, shall prevail in the coming change of the Age.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Dedication, People, Giving

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• All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Work, Done, Littles

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• I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

  Collis Potter Huntington

  Care, Littles, Matter

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• A lot of learning canbe a little thing.

  Spike Milligan

  Littles

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• I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Dirty, Love Life, Land

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.3, Quale Press

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• I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

  Vera Brittain

  Men, Thinking, Victory

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

  Elaine Paige

  Radio, Littles, Noise

  "Show Girl". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.

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