Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.
But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.
The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.
The Republicans are. . . there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.
Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.
Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
We have 400,000 small businesses forming every year in this country. How great is that? They are employing themselves, they are potentially employing others. The bad news is, we have 470,000 going out of business every year. And why? They cite Obamacare.
I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
Every good thing great and small needs defense
If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.
I always get because people remember me as a really small, skinny kid. And then when they meet me, I'm just kind of towering over them. I'm 6'2. I'm not a giant, but compared to what a lot of people remember me as, it's a little bigger.
There is the voice that everybody hears. . . saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to. " And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.