Smallest Quotes - Page 26

• Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.

  Isaac Newton

  Strong, Philosophy, Together

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Events, Details

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• There's not one way to direct a film, there are so many different ways to do it. Everything affects the way it turns out in the end. Even the smallest things. You don't want to really acknowledge that, because you want to believe that you are the only creative asset as a director. You want to believe you're the only one. But I really feel that everyone teams up and everybody really affects everything. Actually, it's the closest I will get to playing in a band.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Team, Believe, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Community, Membership

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• Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

  Mark Strand

  Summer, Strong, Passion

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.406, Knopf

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• It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.

  David Eagleman

  Long, Earth, Sun

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.177, Canongate Books

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• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

  Aristotle

  Ignorance, Men, Self

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• One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: "Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel."

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Causes

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• Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Country, Men

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• You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.

  Patrick Vlaskovits

  Marketing, Want, Pay

  Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits (2010). “The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany”, p.39, CustDev

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• To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited for.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Christian, Men, Matter

  G. Campbell Morgan (2004). “God's Perfect Will”, p.157, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Men, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “Answer to Job”

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• The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this!

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Lying, Giving, Perfect

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• As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Flower, Shining, Catholic

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• Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Children, Land, Strange

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Moving, Mountain

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• Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.

  Greil Marcus

  Teacher, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he's stuck in a rut.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Years, Law

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• We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.

  Herbert Spencer

  Evolution, Made, Evolve

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.559

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• If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, White, Ugly

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 299, 1960.

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• Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.

  Wilhelm Rontgen

  Distance, Order, Atoms

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• God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Godly, Understanding, Mind

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Emma Elizabeth Brown (1879). “Thoughts that breathe”

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• Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

  Giordano Bruno

  Essence, Divinity, Lasts

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Country, Strong, Independent

  "Shake Hands with the Devil". Book by Roméo Dallaire, 2003.

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• Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Ornaments, Railroads

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