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Nothing is too small to matter.
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you, everything becomes insignificant!
When something small happens, something almost imperceptible, and it changes everything.
There is nothing unimportant in the universe.
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.
There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.
As John Maxwell has written, "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."9
A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned.
His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.
out of sight,out of mind
To gain significance, you must first realise that you are insignificant.
What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing!
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.
It is in the petty details, not in the great results, that the interest of existence lies.
indifference but detachment
Don't confuse small with insignificant.
A celebration of insignificance. Is that all we are in the end?
Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.
It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.
Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty.
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth
Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best.
Sometimes, the inessential is essential.
There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing.
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
To be irrelevant is to categorize your live into separate pursuit
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous.
No gesture done out of free will and pure intention, is insignificant.
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
It's how I refer to that sinking feeling that none of this matters. Not the money. Not the academic prestige. Not the fame or influence. Not the beautiful girls. Not anything. It's all meaningless in the end.
To a great mind, nothing is little.
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.
How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!
the momentous arises only from the trivial.
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
In any case, if recognition arising from proximate circumstances based upon fleeting criteria constitutes the sole measure of our personal significance, recognition will be both mercurial and insufficient.
Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.
Out of mind as soon as out of sight.
Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!
As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no one could understand, and about the still greater insignificance of death, the meaning of which no one among the living could understand or explain.
being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope.
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that
Even the most insignificant of our acts, will have some effect on the World around us! That makes every act of ours SIGNIFICANT.....
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
If something makes you wealthier,
it is of considerable importance.
If something makes you happier,
it is of substantial importance.
If something makes you better,
it is of monumental importance.
If something makes you wiser,
it is of astronomical importance.
Compared to the you in my heart, the I in you is insignificant.
Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.
Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.
Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined.
Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.
Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.
How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.
Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.
Faith takes root in the insignificant.
Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing
No one of you is insignificant, in part because you make the gospel of Jesus Christ what it is - a living reminder of His grace and mercy, a private but powerful manifestation in small villages and large cities of the good He did and the life He gave bringing peace and salvation to other people.
Confronted with the truly microscopic, all loftiness is hopeless, completely meaningless. The diminutive of the parts is more impressive than the monumentality of the whole. I no longer have any use for the sweeping gestures of heroes on the global stage. I'm going for a walk.
We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe ... we are completely irrelevant.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
[P]eople are insubstantial. They never last. All this fuss, it's all fuss about nothing. We're here for a while and then we're gone. People are insubstantial. They never last at all.
A thing which is of no moment itself may be made of importance in the way of competition.
Everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.
I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.
So often we measure
by what is false.
We should measure
by what is barely legible
barely in our dailiness.
It is the invisible that doesn't lie
the invisible through which
we see ourselves finally
on a back street in the world.
Immeasurable change is nobody's merit.
When we allow IRRELEVANCE to clog our minds...we are taking energy away from the RELEVANT!
Nothing is little to a great mind.
Everything else is nothing.
We need to overcome this fear of insignificance and replace it with a mind-set of contribution.
Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.
The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.
Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.
You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself.
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.