Small Quotes

8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors

Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small. — Laozi
If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation-an opportunity for growth,… — Neale Donald Walsch
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll… — Lee Ann Womack
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By seeing life's experiences through to the end, on our small scale, we can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, "It is finished."… — Neal A. Maxwell
It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and… — John Ruskin
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows… — John Keats
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all.… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. — Billy Joel
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it… — Louis J. Mordell
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?… — Tony Hoare
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If… — Leslie Lamport
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or… — Richard E. Pattis
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small. — Rosamund Pike
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset,… — Richard Stallman
... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my… — Edsger Dijkstra
The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows. — Confucius
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge,… — Plato
"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic,… — Ken Wilber
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self… — Robert Adams
When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it… — Unknown Author
I believe that having something new happen, no matter how small, is what makes for a healthy day, no matter how many days may be… — Unknown Author

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