Small Important Quotes

#1. A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.

Michael J. Marx

#2. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

Bjork

#3. The real world is simply too terrible to admit.
it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.
Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe.
immortal in some ways

Ernest Becker

#4. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

Bernie Glassman

#5. If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.

Paolo Soleri

#6. And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.

Fred Thompson

#7. Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#8. All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

Aldous Huxley

#9. The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

Michael Johnson

#10. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it ... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

Joel Siegel

#11. To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#12. I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Patrick Dempsey

#13. The word planet should be reserved for the small number of truly important things in the solar system.

Mike Brown

#14. Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.

Laurie Helgoe

#15. Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

Alexander McCall Smith

#17. The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.

Frida Kahlo

#18. Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the planet. I still go back every year. It reminds me of what's important in life.

Vanya Asher

#19. I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

Vikas Swarup

#20. Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

James George Frazer

#21. I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

Amanda Filipacchi

#22. Beau was a small dog. But size doesn't tell you anything about how important something is.

Dan Gemeinhart

#23. Small businesses have played an important role in fueling past economic recoveries.

Ben Bernanke

#24. Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Don Roff

#25. The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

Charles Darwin

#26. We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that ... it's a lion.

Seyoung Kim

#27. Don't forget the small things, above all, don't forget the small things - the smaller the trace, the more important it sometimes is.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

Martina Mcbride

#29. They're important but we're ignoring a lot of other parts that are probably just as compliment-worthy and sexy because we're too busy complimenting firm pecs and thin waists and untarnished souls. Branch out a little, is all I'm saying. It couldn't hurt. I bet your small intestines are adorable.

Jenny Lawson

#30. Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

John Sununu

#31. The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.

Austan Goolsbee

#32. We relied upon Constance for various small delicacies which only she could provide; I am of course not referring to arsenic.'
'Well, the blackberries were the most important part.' Mrs. Wright sounded a little hoarse.

Shirley Jackson

#33. Yes, Donald thinks big, which is especially important when considering the presidency of the United States. No room for small thinking. No room for small results. Donald gets things done.

Melania Trump

#34. Everything in existence matters - all the pieces of the puzzle are important whether great or small, the flap of a butterfly wing affects all."
-Shireen Violett

Shireen Violett

#35. Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally.

Gloria Gaither

#36. Some people have big dreams, some people have small dreams ... Whatever you have, the important thing is that you never stop dreaming. -Doug Hansen

Jon Krakauer

#37. I feel like from a very early age, we know who we are as individuals. I love when I see parents with their kids in these crazy outfits and they're like, "That's what they wanted to wear." Those small things are so important.

Tyler Blackburn

#38. There is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Oliver Heaviside

#39. To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.

Olga Kurylenko

#40. Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

Demetri Martin

#41. I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Paulo Coelho

#42. Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.

Doc Hastings

#43. The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

Dave Eggers

#44. It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.

Paul A. Lombardo

#45. The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

Dr. Seuss

#46. People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.

L. Ron Hubbard

#47. It's important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it's not through a small screen

Benny Bellamacina

#48. 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

#49. He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

Paulo Coelho

#50. I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.

Julia Stiles

#51. If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

Corrie Ten Boom

#52. When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.

Krysten Ritter

#53. AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON!" which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this.

Terry Pratchett

#54. A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

Haniel Long

#55. Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

Randy Neugebauer

#56. 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

#57. Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Jens Stoltenberg

#58. It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

Carlos Slim

#59. I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

Anthony Michael Hall

#60. I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.

Anne Boleyn

#61. Garth on making his stories feel real "Things like armour, clothes and other small details are very important in building up the reality of the story... I do spend quite a lot of time on things like clothing, armour, weapons and try and make them feel real.

Garth Nix

#62. You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.

Mortimer J. Adler

#63. It's not a matter of how small you are. Still you are important; you matter.

Debasish Mridha

#64. The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.

Andy Richter

#65. It's tough to get any movie made, but unless it's a movie about race or culture or ethnicity, it's becoming less and less important who's playing what. You see that on the big screen and the small screen, and I think that's great. That's exciting.

Will Packer

#66. As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.

Michael Loceff

#67. Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign ... you can start small, and that's just as important.

Blake Mycoskie

#68. I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

Christine Quinn

#69. I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence.

Emilia Fox

#70. Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.

Joe Meno

#71. It seemed as though, being the only two people in this small, closed-in space, we couldn't help but have a relationship, and if we couldn't help but have a relationship, I felt that it was important to be upset now so that he would not shift the blame to me in the future.

Alexandra Kleeman

#72. One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

Karen Mills

#73. A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.

Guy Kawasaki

#74. My idle curiosity might lead to something more official, if the lieutenant feels his work is being hindered by an officious, small-minded, self-important bureaucrat. Not you, of course. I speak in general terms only.

Douglas Preston

#75. I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

Sigourney Weaver

#76. The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

J. D. Hayworth

#77. Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.

Christopher Priest

#78. It's deeply un-American, you know, not to make small talk. It's a very important part of the culture of this country.

Anonymous

#79. No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

Mahatma Gandhi

#80. In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.

James Hansen

#81. I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

Salma Hayek

#82. I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

Jack Ma

#83. I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

Cinda Williams Chima

#84. You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.

T. Harv Eker

#85. As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

Jim Lee

#86. Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

Joshua Lederberg

#87. The things I thought were so important
because of the effort I put into them
have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered.

Thomas Merton

#88. When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

Craig Groeschel

#89. Hummingbirds certainly communicate important things to humankind about our world_including the power, grace and beauty that can be found in a very small being.

Leslie Forsberg

#90. These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#91. Colour is really important to me when buying clothes. I wear a lot of fitted jackets, and because I'm small, I avoid long skirts and coats. And I hate wearing hats.

Kate Williams

#92. Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the center - at the very least a main crossroads and pausing point, a climax.

Jane Jacobs

#93. Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

Mohamed Nasheed

#94. The open zipper at the bottom revealed two important details: her ass was as luscious as he had imagined, and she wasn't wearing any panties. His palms started to sweat. How was he supposed to fasten her dress when all he wanted to do was tear it off?

Stacey O'Neale

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

Nelson Mandela

#96. Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

J.C. Ryle

#97. I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.

Mark Obmascik

#98. It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."

Don Winslow

#99. There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

Dustin Moskovitz

#100. This exaggerated power comes not from the size of Natick's research budget, which is relatively small, but from the simple fact of having an overarching goal, a long-term plan, and relentless focus - which, come to think of it, may be the three traits in life most important to making things happen.

Anastacia Marx De Salcedo