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Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
-Proverb
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Little by little does the trick.
-Aesop
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
-Daisy Ashford
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
-Russell Baker
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.
-Bruce Barton
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
-Charles Baudelaire
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Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
-Lawrence D. Bell
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
-Walter Benjamin
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As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
-Warren Buffett
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It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.
-David D. Burns
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
-Dale Carnegie
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
-G. K. Chesterton
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There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
-Peter A. Cohen
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
-Dante Alighieri
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.
-Elizabeth Dunphy
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
-Marian Wright Edleman
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness -- calling their denial knowledge.
-George Eliot
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You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
-Odysseus Elytis
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A small leak can sink a great ship
-Benjamin Franklin
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Books about Things, Little Things
