No Playing Small Quotes

#1. Now is the time to commit to your "SELF" that there will be no playing small. You have gifts to give unto the world - and a difference to make.

Kami Guildner

#2. It's time to level the playing field for small business owners and give them the same health care choices that large corporations have. Because they don't have as many employees, they have little ability to negotiate lower rates.

Jeff Merkley

#3. To grow up
is to find
the small part you are playing
in the extraordinary drama
written by
somebody else.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. The time for playing with zippers is over.

Avery Flynn

#5. For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

Penelope Leach

#6. When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

Steve Lacy

#7. We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

Jack Irons

#8. Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

John Updike

#9. I enjoy coming to Scotland, and my favourite memory has to be my first Open at Carnoustie. Coming over from a small town and playing in something so big to golf and y'all.

Boo Weekley

#10. You're only as good as you're next thought of yourself.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#11. The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr. Teller is that the time it takes him to figure out from the moment that he sees there is something wrong till he understands exactly what happened is too damn small to give you any pleasure!

Richard Feynman

#12. Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

Mike Gordon

#13. I'm dangerous?" I snort disbelievingly. "Very," he replies plainly. "I don't feel dangerous, I feel small and exposed," I say, turning my face away from him. "Evie, you're the most dangerous creature I have ever encountered, and I have encountered them all," he says, playing with my hair.

Amy A. Bartol

#14. As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.

Chris Frantz

#15. Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won't show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.

Vikrmn

#16. As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

Colin Baker

#17. Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

Bob Cousy

#18. When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

Norman Jewison

#19. It makes you observe small details; even if it's just a kid playing with his dad, if you watch them closely, you can use that in your work. It helps you fully understand people better.

Diogo Morgado

#20. Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

Ron Moody

#21. There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house

Markus Zusak

#22. When energy speeds up there is no space for playing small, and nothing can remain hidden.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#23. These games inspire laughter, spontaneity, ensemble building, physical and vocal expression, concentration, self-discovery/reflection, self-esteem, and, ultimately, I believe, good health. They get adults, and teenagers too, playing again, which is no small feat.

Hannah Fox

#24. When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.

Jools Holland

#25. I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.

Art Pepper

#26. Too many people, right now are playing it small. If you want to be SUCCESSFUL, Live BIG, Think BIG, & make every day of your life COUNT!

Joel Brown

#27. Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

Brittany Howard

#28. Death is never more than a breath away from the act of playing music. Each note on a guitar represents a small curve: birth, life, and death-and then you start over.

Andy Summers

#29. The beauty of where I'm from - this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina - I didn't have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons.

Jill Wagner

#30. Skulduggery: I don't know what they are, but there are dozens of them, relatively small, moving as a pack
Valkyrie: They might be kittens
Skulduggery: They're stalking us
Valkyrie: They might be shy
Skulduggery: I don't think they're kittens
Valkyrie: Puppies then?

Derek Landy

#31. It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.

Nellie McKay

#32. I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

Lorraine Toussaint

#33. When I was small, playing NBA Live, that's how I knew everyone in the NBA. That's how I learned about the players.

Tony Parker

#34. On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing and my small suitcase decorated with neon flower stickers unpacked-and wandered towards the upside-down school bus I'd spied from an upstairs window.

Mitch Cullin

#35. I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

John Lee Hooker

#36. Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

Burt Bacharach

#37. If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.

J. D. Souther

#38. There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

Tiesto

#39. My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

Harvey Keitel

#40. I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.

Erika M. Anderson

#41. It's fun playing small venues.

Tracy Chapman

#42. Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

Van Jones

#43. How are you feeling?"
"Like I fell out a burning building onto pavement, you?" I grumbled.
"Like I was pushed out of a burning building by a maniac," she retorted, a small smile playing across her face.

R.R. Virdi

#44. When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.

Lorraine Toussaint

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

David Byrne

#46. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela