#little thing

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#carrying #character #feel #great #little

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect. ↗

— Ed Helms

#amplify #cathartic #cleansing #demons #effect

We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that. ↗

— Don Knotts

#began #beginning #fact #first #had

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#common #doing #duties #effective #great

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#big #everyone #life #little #little things

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#busy #greater #i #i am #little

It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#hundreds #little #little things #things

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#everyday #everyday life #great #heroic #insipid

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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