Smallness Quotes - Page 2

• I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

  Barry Diller

  "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2003.

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• Si las estadísticas son correctas, los Judios constituyen, pero el uno por ciento de la raza humana. Esto sugiere una nebulosa nube de polvo estelar perdida en el resplandor de la Vía Láctea. En realidad, apenas se debería oír hablar de los judíos, pero se oye hablar de ellos, siempre se ha oído hablar de ellos. Es tan prominente en el planeta como cualquier otro pueblo, y su importancia comercial es extravagantemente desproporcionada a la pequeñez de su masa. Sus contribuciones a la lista mundial de grandes nombres de la literatura, la ciencia, el arte, la música, las finanzas, la medicina y el saber abstruso son también muy desproporcionadas en relación con la debilidad de su número.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Stars, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.

  Normandi Ellis

  Thinking, Who You Are

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• People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.

  John Ortberg

  Eye, People, Winner

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• Con la ayuda de los microscopios, no hay nada tan pequeño que escape a nuestra investigación; de ahí que haya un nuevo mundo visible descubierto para el entendimiento.

  Robert Hooke

  Understanding, Vision, Tools

  Robert Hooke (1667). “Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”, p.18

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• How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Games, Play

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 28, 2013

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• Cuando estás en el desierto, miras al infinito.... Te hace sentir terriblemente pequeño, y también, de un modo extraño, bastante grande.

  David Lean

  Desert, Looks, Way

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• Universe will be a very small place once we solve our speed problem! When that day comes, no man will talk about the greatness of the universe! All greatness comes from our smallness and from our slowness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Greatness, Men, Problem

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• You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Hurt, Too Much, Way

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• No tengamos pensamientos insignificantes. Pensemos a mayor escala. No dejemos que los del futuro censuren nuestra pequeñez de concepto y nuestra falta de previsión.

  Adolph Murie

  Thinking, Scales, Foresight

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• The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...

  Wilhelm Reich

  Greatness, Men, Knowing

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• Nos traicionamos a nosotros mismos en la pequeñez cuando pensamos que las pequeñas decisiones de cada día son triviales.

  Helen Keller

  Thinking, Choices, Each Day

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.164, Matthew Gordon

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• No pongas toda tu identidad en la pequeñez de una situación.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Identity, Situation, Whole

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jun 03, 2013

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• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated.  Suppose the fight was fixed.  Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy.  Would you not return fearless and singing?  What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven?  To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

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• Si la grandeza de propósito, la pequeñez de medios y los resultados asombrosos son los tres criterios de un genio humano, ¿quién podría atreverse a comparar a cualquier gran hombre de la historia con Muhammad?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mean, Greatness, Men

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

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• Crecer es a veces herir, pero ¿quién volvería a la pequeñez?

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Hurt, Return, Sometimes

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.320, University of Virginia Press

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• Como la atracción es más fuerte en los imanes pequeños que en los grandes en proporción a su volumen, y la gravedad es mayor en las superficies de los planetas pequeños que en las de los grandes en proporción a su volumen, y los cuerpos pequeños se agitan mucho más por la atracción eléctrica que los grandes, así la pequeñez de los rayos de luz puede contribuir mucho al poder del agente por el que se refractan.

  Isaac Newton

  Light, Stronger, Rays

  Sir Isaac Newton (1718). “Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...”, p.326

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• A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.

  Stephen Dunn

  Acceptance, World, Moments

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is
  death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Men, Law

  Erich Fromm (2013). “On Being Human”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

  Pat Conroy

  Lucky, Treasure, Fortune

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.273, Open Road Media

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• So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

  Ally Condie

  Life, People, Needs

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• Hate nobody; love everybody. It won't cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you so much protection, grace, and radiance. It doesn't give you any smallness or suffering. The attitude of conscious living is to love and give grace to someone worthy of your trust. Do not seek anything from people. Give love instead, and rely on God.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Attitude

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• How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Motherhood, Careers

  "What's Wrong with the World". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton (Part Three: Feminism, or The Mistake About Woman, Chapter 3: The Emancipation of Domesticity), 1910.

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• The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."

  Jim Cymbala

  Prayer, Real, Church

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• I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Stupid, Eye

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.17, Hachette UK

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