Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
I must say. . . that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
It's not just about being small, it's about doing more with less.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Dream big and your problems become small.
The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.
[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
It's a small town, it has only a few docks. . . now they are in a trap.
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.
My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
What do you want exactly? (Fang) An end to the mistreatment of small, fluffy dust bunnies. (Thorn)
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.
Life is too short to be small.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!