Quotes with small-scale

Quotes 361 till 380 of 533.

  • Benjamin Banneker Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Lewis Thomas Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Abraham Cowley Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Brad Feld Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Booker T. Washington Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Robert Collier Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Bill Hybels Supplications are requests that you make of God. And truly, nothing is too big for God to handle or too small for him to be interested in.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Barack Obama That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles.
    Speech DNC, 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Neil Armstrong That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
    Neil Armstrong
    American astronaut and engineer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Carolyn Chute That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Emily Dickinson The abdication of belief makes the behavior small - better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Russell Lynes The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Brad D. Smith The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Carole Berman The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.
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  • Bille August The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Angela Davis The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Alan Cohen The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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