Quotes on Littles

What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start making health care affordable for those working harder and harder for too little.

Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.

To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.

Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door