With music there’s so many limbs and facets. Video and touring and merchandise and all those little things require attention. They’re artist things but I tend to joke around too much with those things.
We pride ourselves on preparing well and genuinely. It’s quite easy to brush over the small details, your recovery, the little one percenters. There are so many little things that add up to the performance.
It’s all about doing the little things right. It doesn’t matter what form of cricket you are playing. Just keep things simple, and you will succeed.
As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children’s music. I couldn’t find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.
My mom has gone out of her way in her personal life. She’s been with me on the road. She’s had to deal with people giving her the ‘that’s the mom’ and arguing. Just little things as a businesswoman.
In reality I have said very little things; I didn’t point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
We practice throughout the week throwing jump balls, throwing fades, throwing all these little things. But when the game comes, you never know what’s going to come up.
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
We concentrate so much on anniversaries and birthdays that you forget it’s the Tuesday that’s tough that really counts. Sometimes she just needs some flowers or even just that ear. It’s the little things that count. It’s the regular days of the year that you have to keep your attention on her.
I’ve reached a point in my life where it’s the little things that matter… I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I’m happier with that.
All I know is the same lessons you need to learn at Little League basketball, you need to learn at the upper levels. It’s the little things you learn when you’re little that apply in college.
The little things, I can obey. But the big things – how we think, what we value – those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone – or any society – determine those for you.
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there’s no Finneas. There’s no Billie. They’re little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.
There’s a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there’s a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what’s important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.
Every time I start to get worked up over something, I just think to myself, ‘Is this really going to matter in my life tomorrow, in an hour, in a year?’ You just can’t get stressed about the little things ’cause it’s just not worth it at the end of the day.
I never understand the plan that the Lord has given me. But it’s so cool, because He keeps reminding me that I am on the right path. He reminds me with little things and big things.
I love traveling and touring, but I have to bring the little things that make me feel at home.
It seems in this day and age our teens are going to the Internet to learn all the things we would ask our dads. How to tie a tie, how to shave, all those little things.
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Standing as a witness in all things means all things – big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service rendered, in clothes worn, in friends made.
Audacity, hope, courage – the Libyans have these in abundance. But all those boring little things – like organization, building a committee – is hard; making decisions and moving ahead is hard.
Even after four years in office, George W. Bush’s record on women doesn’t leap out at you. It’s composed almost entirely of little things, small enough to fly well under the media’s radar screen, so few of us have any sense of their cumulative impact.
The letters, the food – I had no idea I wouldn’t see a shrimp for three years. You don’t look at those little things you take for granted so easy, until you get sat down, get locked up, or get into a position were you see other people who are less fortunate than you – that don’t have anybody.
We usually have a fixed routine for our trainings. It is important that we are disciplined throughout because, being athletes, those little things impact our performances on the field.
Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things – photos, fragments of conversation – and store them away for future use.
Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can’t no more’ basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it’s with you.
It’s the little things you remember. My mam, Sue, would take me to training in a taxi when I was a kid if Dad, who is a builder, had to work on a Saturday morning. You look back at the stuff like that and realise the sacrifices were all worth it.
Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
So many of my paintings, people would be like, ‘What more do you have to do?’ But the smallest little things make all of the difference.
I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I’m not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.
I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you’re grateful for each day. Now I’m constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
My game has been improving as I’ve been working. Little things are getting better. Which, I would hope so – it’s all I do every day.
Don’t get bored with little things – little completions here and there. They are all valuable, because I know that’s a trap to fall into. You start feeling pretty good, and you think ‘Oh, I want to try and throw this, or throw that.’ And you’ve got to reel yourself in and hone in on the details.
A lot of times in America, we work on bully muscles. We want the big muscles and the stuff that looks good. But we don’t focus on the little things. But that’s the stuff that sustains you and keeps you strong.
On ‘Avatar’, I learned that it’s worth taking some risks and doing some weird little things with characters or having an off-joke here and there, even if it’s only for 5 percent of the audience.
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he’s offering is more of the same. That’s not good. Look at the economy. It’s stagnating. And so, what they’re now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.
I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school, so there were always little things going on, but it wasn’t really until I was 17 that I did a proper performance. My first big one was Glastonbury, before I was signed.
Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.
I don’t want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
A guy that’s going to do all of the dirty work, that guy that is willing to defend anyone and do the little things and not really care about all of that other stuff. I think every championship team needs that.
I know I’m an acquired taste – I’m anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
You’ve got to know your role. I was never built like someone who was 6-9 or 6-10, didn’t have athleticism and became a good shooter. Wasn’t a natural shooter. So for me, it’s being smart. It’s a guy, I used to look at Shane Battier; take angles, play the right way, a winner. Do all the little things.
