Smallest Quotations

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life!

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.

Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.

The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide.

A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing.

My husband is that rare man who is blessed with the ability to see the big picture but will not ignore the smallest detail. He will work an 18-hour day and still find time to help the kids with their homework.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Of all the measures to be taken in building the new socialist countryside, the national fitness project is one that needs the smallest investment but will produce an instant effect.

One of the things that's so devastating about this storm is Biloxi was really being restored from the really grand, public historic buildings to the smallest vernacular cottages.

My first year teaching, I had 57, if you could imagine, 57 students in the class and I guess the smallest class I taught was 18, a few years ago.

Many consumers are calling for live TV and lower pricing before they'll start watching video on the smallest of screens. But considering those that are likely to use it, namely, high-income, young-adult wireless subscribers, it might serve the industry well to lower the cost barrier in order to reach more of this lucrative market.

She's the smallest kid on the floor, but she's the nastiest, no doubt about it. She's very passionate.

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power

Today is a Red Flag day. On a day like this, the smallest spark and high winds can cause a fire. It's a matter of how quick they can get on them.

We're one of the smallest schools competing in the Division I meets, so our focus is getting as many kids as we can through to the next level.

We're one of the smallest teams in the country. And going against a taller team poses quite a challenge.

He would have to get permission and we would be very reluctant to give it. It's very offensive to us that he chose to take on the arresting officer the way he did verbally. And then the fact there was alcohol, even in the smallest way, involved.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

He's been playing well all year. Kentucky Wesleyan was probably the smallest team we'll play, so we pounded it inside to him.

My vote is one of the most unimportant acts of my life; if I were to acquaint myself with the matters on which it ought really to depend, if I were to try to get a judgment on which I was willing to risk affairs of even the smallest moment, I should be doing nothing else, and that seems a fatuous conclusion to a fatuous undertaking.

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

Part of being the smallest school in Section Four is that we suffer from a lack of depth. So we have to hit the boards, protect the ball and play hard defense. It's the traditional types of things we have to do well to give ourselves a chance to win.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

James probably doesn't know this, but he's inspired us. We have all learned so much from James. Facing adversity, coming back and just putting everything in perspective. People can easily get down, especially about the smallest things.

I'm happy Boca High is getting some needed things, but I don't think it will help in the long run. Boca High has 30 acres of land, which is the smallest site in the county for a comprehensive high school.

Retail hiring between October and December was by far the smallest in years. We wonder if those 'not hired' for Christmas will 'not be let go,' as traditionally would happen, in January. If so, that will look like a gain in the seasonally adjusted numbers.

Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,

Our collection department is very careful to track each individual artifact, even from the smallest piece of coal, very carefully and to report on the condition of these on a daily basis.

I think most people would rather be the largest among the smallest than the smallest playing with the largest. Some will like it. Some won't.

I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess. I wish enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

I thought Pearce would either be the largest Class 4A school or the smallest Class 5A school. That wouldn't have been good. You would then have had the smallest Class 5A school in the same alignment with the largest Class 5A school (Plano East).

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

It barely passed, and it shows the pilots are not in favor of giving the company anything more. That's the smallest margin that anything has ever been passed by Delta pilots.

I think it's going good. I keep in contact with the county chairmen of the smallest eight to 10 counties. They understand leveraging of time and things like that.

It could be the smallest pond in the entire world, but if you are a big fish in that pond, you will be perceived as having deep pockets.

When I saw a production of Porgy and Bess, I wanted to be Porgy because he was the smallest guy on the stage, and I identified with him.

You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.

Unfortunately the smallest amount paid by consumers returns to the producing country and the biggest profits are made by the Western governments who bring pressure upon the consumers there ...

I would like to say that I see the market broadening, ... But I really don't. People have been talking about the Russell 2000, because that has been performing so well. It's 2000 of the smallest stocks. Now, the problem is though that most of the gains have been in the health care area, which are the biotech stocks. And that's up over 50 percent since the end of the year. And the other area is the technology area, which has been up substantially. And that's what's been lifting that particular index.

The annual percentage increase in house prices nationally in 2005 was the smallest for 10 years.

We have always played the bigger schools, but what else can we do. We just happen to be the smallest school in the area that is in our conference, but that is OK with us.

Who can seriously doubt that the power which a millionaire, who may be my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest bureaucrat possesses who wields the coercive power of the state and on whose discretion it depends how I am allowed to live and work?

We had great coverage and he (McCullough) laid the ball in there to the kid. We gave them the smallest window, but they made the play.

We have repeatedly warned that some of the world's oldest and smallest indigenous groups are at high risk not only of displacement, but even of extinction because of the Colombian conflict. All indigenous communities have close links to their ancestral land, on which their cultural survival depends.

We didn't want to slow it down, we were just tired of playing against a zone. I mean, we're the smallest team in the county and everyone plays us zone. We just wanted someone to play our style for once.

I was always the smallest guy on the field.

We've seen a cross-section of people from the smallest retailers to the largest factories respond. Many, many people are realizing what this program has done, and what it can do.

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

We came here also to try and score, and not just to defend. In the second half we wanted to score another goal, and Beasley came up with it. That proved fatal for Monaco, but it was a great result for us. We must be the team with the smallest budget of all the qualified teams.

When a documentary is being made, it usually focuses on the director or an actor. We felt that it would be more interesting to really dissect a film down to its smallest components.

Women who need to take estrogen because of severe menopausal symptoms should take the smallest amount of dose, for the shortest possible amount of time.

We bring to the table expertise in measuring the strength of materials at the smallest of scales.

We appear to be the smallest team on the field each week. They're big. They're a very big, physical team.

Even my girlfriend told me I was crazy. Who in their right mind would want to set up shop in the smallest town in the state?

Even the smallest initiatives are being mitigated or stopped by some of the most unlikely and often uninformed parties...I view these circumstances as quite troubling because the good work laid out by the IT Commission is slowly being strangled and brought to a halt. And the last thing I can let happen is my presence be the major contributing factor marginalizing the good work of ITD and the entire IT community.

The winds over the Atlantic will be crucial, and the team at Mission Control is working round the clock analyzing the movements of the jet streams. Steve will continue to search out the best winds; even the smallest increase in speed will bring the record closer.

We're the smallest school by far that'll be there. Being a small school in track is difficult. You win with depth. But we're going to go there and give it our best effort. We'll try our hardest and, regardless of what happens, the sun will still come up Saturday morning.

Beautiful words on international solidarity don't mean a thing if we would quit after the smallest setback.

The smallest blower we sell has more power than anybody needs.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun

The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.

the smallest percentage increase in the history of the pension plan.

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

The smallest teams didn't fear us the last three years. FAMU even said something about beating us one time, so you know it's bad. We were a laughingstock.

The secretary made quite clear that our goal is to have the smallest footprint possible that was consistent with a need to achieve the mission,

We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that

You do see some deliveries quicker than others. Sometimes, you get a sense that your body is in their body and you can feel the transfer of power. When you do get a pitcher like that, sometimes the smallest thing sticks out with you. I'm not saying that Ryan was exactly like that, but he was close.

We had a real good night. There were eight schools there and were by far the smallest - the only 1A school. I think now we're ready to run outside. We've been running pretty well inside and I think we'll be sharper than some teams that have only had one indoor meet.

We currently have 18 conservation easements totaling about 1,825 acres. The largest is 700 acres, and the smallest is about 12 acres.

Boo, he's small, but a big leader, as I can him. He may be the smallest player on the court, but of course, he plays like the biggest. He always keeps us together in tough times.

The one-person, one-vote cases are the example of the judiciary being the most activist ever . . . it led to the redrawing of districts for almost every representative institute in the United States, from the smallest town council to congressional delegations.

The things Vernell Brown has done this year are special. He's really turned it on and is having a great senior year. I'm jealous of the senior year he's had. He's one of the smallest guys on the team and he is one of the strongest.

I wanted the algorithm to make all the features important to radiologists degrade at the same rate - both the edges of large tumors and the smallest calcium deposits. I tried several approaches and eventually got a balance that seemed reasonable, based on what radiologists tell me they want.

We are excited to introduce Nokia's smallest ever Bluetooth Headset BH-800 to the market. I'm confident that the stylish minimalist design coupled with the tiny size of the product will attract completely new consumer segments globally.

Self assessment, combined with the authority of the Certified Open processes, gives us a light touch/high rigor approach. Even the smallest supplier can compete on level terms. This is very much a scheme where both the public and private sectors jointly benefit from a more open market.

Dennis has taken one of the smallest nations in the world to the greatest show on the planet. He walked down the streets of his home town like a conquering hero, and yet he is exactly the same person today as he was six years ago.