The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.
Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?
Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.
Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements. . . those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. . . Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.
For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.
Though it`s a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.
You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.
I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they are placed in ; who value and love nothing beyond it ; whose minds are as cramped as that narrow spot of ground they call their estate, of which the extent is measured, the acres are numbered, and the limits well known.
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.
I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.
