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• Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Ambition, Ideas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

  George Eliot

  Men, World, Suits

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

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• I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Happiness, Things In Life, Littles

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (1989). “14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book”, Workman Publishing

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• A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Ocean, Evil, World

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.66

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• The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Crazy, Thinking, Genius

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• The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

  Rose Macaulay

  Lying, People, Lasts

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• Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.

  Eduardo Galeano

  People, World, Small Places

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• It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Suffering Of Others, Imagination, Moral

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• They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Giving, Smoking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

  Etty Hillesum

  Creativity, Deals, Wells

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• I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

  Todd Solondz

  Nice, Mean, Loss

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Airports, Littles, Misery

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• Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

  Arthur Lynch

  Life, Powerful, Battle

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

  John O'Hara

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  John O'Hara (1934). “Appointment in Samarra”

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• Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Wheels, Speed, Enough

  Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition

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• There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Time, Great Things, All Things

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.556, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Long, Doe

  "If It Die". Book by André Gide, ch. III, 1924.

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• Put your energies into creativity. Forget about anger as a problem, ignore it. Channelise your energy towards more creativity. Pour yourself into something that you love. Rather than making anger your problem, let creativity be your object of meditation. Shift from anger to creativity and immediately you will see a great change arising in you. And tomorrow the same things will not feel like excuses for being angry because now energy is moving, is channelised, is being sublimated, is enjoying itself, its dance. Who cares about small things?

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Anger, Creativity

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• Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to hold myself captive with chocolate. I find that writers tend to be dismissive of small amounts of work or time, but they can actually add up. I've written several books in 15 minute increments.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Book, Writing, Chocolate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!!
  You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Thinking, Average, Add

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• If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Stay Positive, Waiting

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• For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Appreciation, Betrayal

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

  Fernand Point

  Done, Things Done

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• Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

  Charlotte Mason

  Sight, Mind, Crowds

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• In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Fate

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

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