#little thing

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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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

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft. ↗

— LL Cool J

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bring #campaign #cannot #clearly #distortions

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

— Saint Francis de Sales

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

— Cliff Shaw

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True greatness consists in being great in little things. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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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

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

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