Quotes About The Importance Of Small Things

#1. Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

Christina Baldwin

#2. What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

Simon Beaufoy

#3. My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

Dan Groat

#4. You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.

Lorenzo Snow

#5. I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#6. [The chief lesson of this chapter, in Tu Mu's opinion, is the paramount importance in war of rapid evolutions and sudden rushes. "Great results," he adds, "can thus be achieved with small forces."]

Sun Tzu

#7. I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

William Whipple

#8. As a sufferer of depression for many years, I know the importance of trying to find positive experiences in each day, no matter how small.

Sharon E. Rainey

#9. As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

Noam Chomsky

#10. All love began with a tingling in the heart and a beautiful small smile.

Debasish Mridha

#11. The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

Gustave Le Bon

#12. I caught myself feeling that vile need for others to be grateful to us, to show themselves as small and dependent, because that is what creates our favor, nurtures it, and heightens the importance of our deeds and kindness.

Mesa Selimovic

#13. Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

Albert Camus

#14. People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others.
[The human element]

W. Somerset Maugham

#15. Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

Diane Dreher

#16. Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

Peter Blair Henry

#17. What man would have courage enough to believe he could win you? Bosque laughed. You exude power. Men are small creatures, easily cowed by those who challenge their sense of self-importance.

Andrea Cremer

#18. When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

William John Wills

#20. She was quivering with self-importance, like a small enraged football.

Terry Pratchett

#21. There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.

Edward Young

#22. I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

Hillary Clinton

#23. One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening - big or small - can affect an entire string of people. Occurences can join us all together.

Cecelia Ahern

#24. It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

George Orwell

#25. Her greatest joy in life was knowing that her importance to the team was by no means small and that, as narrow as that world might be, she had been granted a definite place in it. Someone needed her.

Haruki Murakami

#26. Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life might turn on the next few moments if he could find the right words, and make himself say them.

Joe Abercrombie

#27. Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

Elizabeth Wordsworth

#28. So on we tramped, three small dots on a big mountain, mere specks, beings of no importance. In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.

Ruskin Bond

#29. Nothing is small or great in God's sight. Whatever He wills becomes great to us, however seemingly trifling; and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance.

Jean Grou

#30. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

John Ruskin

#31. There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

Amelia E. Barr

#32. General state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By

George Orwell

#33. Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters - no small inspiration to take from a series whose beautifully androgynous male characters often appear to be some kind of heterosexual stress test.

Tom Bissell

#34. He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.

Michael Koryta