The Small Quotes
Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.
London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.
In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.
As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things.
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
I'm not a teen anymore, but growing up, some of my favorite things were, like, 'Twin Peaks, ' which wasn't even really my time, and this is one of the things, like a weird, quirky, small town mystery.
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.
I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.
Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.
If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
It doesn't matter if you're small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, 'Oh my God, I look amazing, ' and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone.
In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.
The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can metabolize glycerol and glucose, just as the cells in our bodies do.
Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration.
I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8, 000 movies.
I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.
I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.