Quotes About Insignificant

Wars of enormous importance are fought in places nobody cares about.

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events.

We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.

The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

But it was as if a tiny animal living in the corner of my mind, smaller than a mouse, smaller than an ant, and unobtrusive even considering its size, was saying, 'Bullshit.

I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles, life. —Young. The smallest hair throws its shadow. —Goethe. He that despiseth small things shall fall little by little. —Ecclesiastes. It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. —Tennyson. A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river: A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever.

Me? I'm nothing. I'm a fart in the air conditioning. I'm always there, but most of the time nobody knows it.

the momentous arises only from the trivial.

It is always a mistake to underestimate the little people of the world, for it is often they who tip the balance.

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch?)" -from Song of Myself

So weak and ineffectual, it's almost homeopathic.

What affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

Little things are big.

seemed like small potatoes.

The harmony of natural law Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

This is all we are at our best, he thought, tiny instances accumulating up into a greater whole. There is noting magnificent in this world, he thought, that is not born from an act so slight as to go wholly unnoticed. We must be especially attentive to see them, and to remember to perform them, he thought, yes, that is the crux: we must simply pay attention.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I have been offered roles in mainstream films which have not been interesting to me. They have been too insignificant.