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"Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?"
"She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things."
"Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest."
"The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit."
"I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
"When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements."
""What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, "I am Great". ""
"The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan."
"There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed."
"Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message"
"Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive."
"The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary."
"The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day."
"A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do."
"Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him."
"For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison."
"The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them."
"Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own."
"Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever."