Quotes with small-scale

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  • Abraham Robinson As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
    Abraham Robinson
    Polish mathematician (1918 - 1974)
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  • Sarah Ban Breathnach As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    American author and philanthropist
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  • Comte de Bussy-Rabutin As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carlos Slim At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Brad D. Smith At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Aristotle Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Burt Bacharach Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Brandon Lee Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Bill Gates Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.
    Source: Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Ayers Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Beryl Bainbridge Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
    Source: Injury Time ch. 4, pp. 41-42.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • David J. Schwartz Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier - certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anne Grant Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Ben Stein But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Lord George Byron But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Saskya Pandita By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
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  • Albert Speer Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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