Top 100 Small Stuff Quotes
#1. Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.
Richard Carlson
#2. HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.
Suzanne Fields
#3. If people start looking from the small stuff up to the bigger once, they will find stuff which they haven't know that they have been there or never imagined that they had them!
Deyth Banger
#4. 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
#5. A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.
Patrick Bergin
#6. I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.
Olivia Newton-John
#7. I think that when you become a mom ... you don't really worry about the small stuff. I'm just way more centered. It makes you focus even more on what your goals are in life.
Ciara
#8. Instead of sweating the small stuff - and the big stuff - I shrug and say, "thank you.
Linda Gray
#9. I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.
Anthony S. Fauci
#10. I used to say ... 'Don't sweat the small stuff
not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace.
Christina Applegate
#12. Don't sweat the small stuff ... and it's all small stuff.
Richard Carlson
#13. Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.
Stella Maeve
#15. Two rules of harmony. #1) Don't sweat the small stuff, and #2) It's all small stuff.
Richard Carlson
#16. So many people spend so much of their life energy 'sweating the small stuff' that they completely lose touch with the magic and beauty of life.
Richard Carlson
#17. Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
Mike Davies
#18. I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
Olivia Newton-John
#19. Don't break your promise. Sweat the small stuff. Love your brand. Love your customers.
Ken Goldstein
#20. You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#22. I don't, as my mom would say, sweat the small stuff in our relationship. Because when I think of day-to-day irritations that you might have with the one you love, they're nothing compared to the bigger task at hand.
Michelle Obama
#23. It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
Linus Torvalds
#24. What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.
Chip Giller
#25. Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.
Adam Sadowsky
#26. Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.
Tony Robbins
#27. I collect a lot of eco-friendly shopping bags that serve to separate my shoes other and other small stuff in my luggage.
Liu Wen
#28. Put the small stuff into perspective. It's better to be wrong and alive than right but eating brains.
Jesse Petersen
#29. Don't sweat the small stuff. After all, we're all just along for the ride, on a rock traveling through space at 42,000 mph.
Charles F. Glassman
#30. I have two rules I follow religiously:
#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
#2. It's all small stuff.
R. Rose
#31. True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#32. You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.
Tanc Sade
#33. What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
Robert D. Kaplan
#34. You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.
Chanel Iman
#35. Don't sweat the small stuff, it's a long walk back to EDEN. Carolyn Roberts
Stephen King
#36. Joy is family, life, all of it - the big stuff and the small stuff. Just holding the woman you love in your arms can make a hard day at work fade away.
Renee Carlino
#38. Don't sweat the small stuff; however, on the key stuff, sweat everything.
Orrin Woodward
#40. Sweat the small stuff. Without letting anyone see you sweat.
Chris Hadfield
#41. I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
Sojourner Truth
#43. If you can figure out how to choose happiness in your marriage daily, and stop sweating the small stuff, it'll take ten years off your life.
Fawn Weaver
#44. It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.
Stephen King
#45. Before he lets me go, he tells me what life looks like. "There's the walk into battle. The battle itself. And the walk away." It's a cycle we repeat. Every day. Sometimes it's over small stuff. Sometimes it's life and death.
Suzanne Phillips
#46. We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff.
Epiphana Lewis
#47. An astronaut who doesn't sweat the small stuff is a dead astronaut.
Chris Hadfield
#48. Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.
Helen Gurley Brown
#50. You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
Mick Jones
#51. It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.
Megan McKenna
#52. There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.
Finn Taylor
#53. Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
Carolina Herrera
#54. NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.
Peter Diamandis
#55. It made Alice realize how much of life was full of empty stuff, objects longed for because the hope of them made your small life seem bigger, better, brighter.
Christina Henry
#56. We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time.
Patti Digh
#57. With the abundance of toys available, a child's room (or the whole house) can be overtaken by Kid Stuff with just one Christmas or birthday and a small group of well-meaning relatives.
Dana White
#58. My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.
Rashid Johnson
#59. Then I heard someone laugh.
I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.
Elizabeth Scott
#60. Mistletoe was her new favorite holiday decoration. She would have to hang some in the kitchen. All over the house. And keep the green stuff hanging until Easter. Or Thanksgiving.
Melissa McClone
#61. A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world.
Nancy Pearcey
#62. The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
John Gunther
#63. Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.
Brian Bell
#64. I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!
Louise Hay
#65. With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.
Norm MacDonald
#66. I did a lot of stuff before I became known for horror. I did a lot of small films in the '70s, in all kinds of styles. I worked with all kinds of people when I was just starting out: I was incredibly lucky.
Robert Englund
#67. I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between,
Graydon Carter
#68. I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
Kate O'Mara
#69. I've done four other films since 'Submarine,' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work; I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world.
Craig Roberts
#70. We don't have to tell secrets. We don't have to talk at all. We could just, you know, kiss . . . and stuff.
Tracy Brogan
#71. I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have a small rude incontinent person follow me around screaming and making me buy them stuff for the rest of my life.
Tim Kreider
#72. You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
Harvey Korman
#73. I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
Adam Sandler
#74. It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information.
Sherman Austin
#75. I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture - better to smash the borders and look for interesting and important stuff from many different forms of storytelling.
Toni Jerrman
#76. I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too.
Chad Urmston
#77. Unlike literary characters, our future is mostly shaped by small, trivial choices - seemingly insignificant, but deceptively fateful.
Guillermo Erades
#78. I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.
Lauren Mayberry
#79. The world bein' so small ain't always a good thing for those of us who ain't searchin' for new and different stuff.
Dan Groat
#80. Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit introspective, a little bit morbid. I was small for my age, so I was bullied and that kind of stuff.
Ariel Pink
#81. There was so much great music around in the '60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.
Iwan Rheon
#82. Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#83. People know me because I play the monsters, but I'm most recognized from the small roles in which they see my face. None of that stuff really bothers me. Whether I'm recognized in or out of a costume isn't a kind of pressure I put myself through anymore.
Kevin Peter Hall
#84. Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?
Pico Iyer
#85. I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.
Christina Ricci
#86. I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I'd like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and fly around to places, play tricks on people ... you know, fairy-like stuff.
Georgina Reilly
#87. The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.
Dean Wareham
#88. My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.
Katherine Heigl
#89. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.
David Small
#90. Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.
Dan Jenkins
#91. It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
Rachel Maddow
#92. You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.
Bob Seger
#93. We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.
Sandra Lerner
#94. My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.
Caroline Wozniacki
#95. I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.
Erlend Loe
#96. I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?
Chuck D
#97. What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.
Mitchell Feigenbaum
#98. People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy ... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King
#99. I think a lot of awesome stuff is coming out with smaller presses. Small presses don't have to have huge board meetings to talk about how to market their books or what to publish - they can take more chances. They can help new authors grow in a healthier, often more artistic way.
Kevin Sampsell
#100. I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?
Gisele Bundchen
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