Things, Little Things Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. -Proverb Little by little does the trick. -Aesop What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution. -Henri Frederic Amiel My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. -Daisy Ashford Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that dont work, those that break down and those that get lost. -Russell Baker Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things. -Bruce Barton Nothing can be done except little by little. -Charles Baudelaire Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and Ill show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things. -Lawrence D. Bell Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collectors passion borders on the chaos of memories. -Walter Benjamin As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart. -Sarah Ban Breathnach I dont look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. -Warren Buffett It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you havent gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works. -David D. Burns Dont be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. -Dale Carnegie Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. -G. K. Chesterton There is no one giant step that does it. Its a lot of little steps. -Peter A. Cohen The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. -Dante Alighieri It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend. -Elizabeth Dunphy We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. -Marian Wright Edleman It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness -- calling their denial knowledge. -George Eliot Youll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. -Odysseus Elytis A small leak can sink a great ship -Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. -Mary Guyette All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little. -Lafcadio Hearn If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great. -Hesiod Those that are little, little things suit. -Horace There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. -Samuel Johnson I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. -Helen Keller Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. -Mary Ann Kelty It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. -Grenville Kleiser All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. -Lao-Tzu Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you dont collect all these tiny successes, the big ones dont really mean anything. -Norman Lear The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. -G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg Inches make champions. -Vince Lombardi Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things. -Og Mandino Its the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. -J. Willard Marriott It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. -Gerard De Nerval The thing that goes the farthest Towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, Is just a pleasant smile. -Wilbur D. Nesbit For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. -Jos We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. -Pablo Picasso What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. -Marcel Proust Inch by inch, its a cinch. -Robert H. Schuller The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments. -Dr. David Schwartz A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. -Sri Swami Sivananda Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum. -Susan Sontag All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together. -Source Unknown Increased QUALITY/PRODUCTIVITY is made up of 1000s of small improvements. Just like Gulliver who was held down by 1000s of threads. Each one doesnt seem to mean much, and in the case of a thread, can be easily broken. But 1000s of them can have a very strong effect. -Source Unknown Little pots soon boil over. -Source Unknown Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a years time. -Source Unknown If we triumph in the little things of our common hours, we are sure to triumph in our lives. -Source Unknown To be free of destructive stress dont sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small. -Source Unknown I believe in the total depravity of inanimate things... the elusiveness of soap, the knottiness of strings, the transitory nature of buttons, the inclination of suspenders to twist and of hooks to forsake their lawful eyes, and cleave only unto the hairs of their hapless owners head. -Katharine Walker Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the everyday things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. -Booker T. Washington It isnt the big pleasures that count the most; its making a great deal out of the little ones. -Jean Webster There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. -Walt Whitman I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. -Laura Ingalls Wilder Its the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. -John Wooden Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
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