Top 1200 Small Details Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

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.

Art is all in the details.

God was in the details.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

God is in the details.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.

Success is in the details.

Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this. What - look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands - if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller subset that actually takes action. And you can't cover everyone who has some contact, someone bad. What you need is offense overseas, defense at home with intelligence and law enforcement, and really deep engagement with these communities.

I grew up in the small German village of Bosingen, which is located between Black Forest and the state capital of Stuttgart. And when I say small, I mean small. In our village, there were no more than 1,700 people. And we all loved football, but there weren't a lot of places for us boys around town to play in.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

The truth is in the details.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.

To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way she takes you in. It's a rhythmic thing and a stillness thing to consider but these are little details, little nuances. We were invited to the sanctity of her home and there were roosters running around and she's screaming, "Jackie, be quiet!" Even though she's in the middle of the thing. And these are the details that we wanted to incorporate into our story.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

I nitpick details.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.

Details are all there are.

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

I live at the bottom of a valley. I have a small bookshop in a small town, and I seldom venture far afield.