A Quote by Eric Johnston

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Eric Johnston

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Eric Johnston
American - Business person
December 21, 1896 - August 22, 1963

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

Miguel de Cervantes

We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.

Walt Disney

Bigness is better.

Thomas Leonard

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.

Jerry Saltz

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

Alanis Morissette

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

E. M. Forster

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

David Rittenhouse

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

Charles Spurgeon

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

Edna Ferber

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Michael Heizer

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.