Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hamming

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

Richard Carlson

Don't Stress the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff,

Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Robert Kiyosaki

Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.

Toward the end they spread the margin, but that was not until the end of the game. We just have to work on the small things that we are not doing well right now.

Sean Maher

We all at the time thought it was a small Cessna something that was doing a tour.

There is already mold, ... There was one small window broken.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

The smaller the jury, the more variance you get just from the play of the numbers.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Pope John Paul II

Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament.

Pindar

I will be small in small things, great among great.

Philippa Gregory

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

Mother Teresa

Do great in the small things.

Timothy Leary

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.

Roger Ebert

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

Rod Taylor

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

Sander Levin

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Tory Burch

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

Victor Hugo

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

Jeremy Irvine

I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.

Hillary Clinton

Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.

Howard Hughes

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

Franz Kafka

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

Even with the small sample, it can have validity.

Sandy Wilson

It's a small town remembering what it's like to be an American.

James May

It's a small step in the right direction.

Andre Williams

It's going to be a while before any one of us want to get on a smaller plane, I think.

It's small and hot. It's a tough place to play. We will have to get everybody's 'A' game.

David Hallberg

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.

Even though it's a small amount, it's an important milestone.