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Think small and you’ll only achieve small things
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Dream big
- Dream big dreams; only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls. Marcus Aurelius
- Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophesy of what you shall at last unveil. James Allen
- I dare you to think in great terms. I challenge you to dream a great dream. Nothing is impossible to those who decide upon possibility. Raymond Charles Barker
- Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams. Cheryl Richardson
- As long as you are going to think anyway – you might as well think big. Donald Trump
- No matter how small you start, always dream big. Stephen Richards
- Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them. Josie Bisset
- Don’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream the farther you get. Michael Phelps
- You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream. John Eliot
- Big dreams drive us to do things we’d never do for lesser dreams — in many ways they almost pull us through the obstacles we’re likely to have on the way to reaching them. Vic Johnson
- No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.
- Life is short, live bold! Be heard, be you, dream big, take risks, don’t wait. Misty Gibbs
- Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. Life’s Little Instructions
- Dream big, live bigger
- Live simply. Dream big. Be grateful. Give love. Laugh lots.
- If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there. Joyce Chapman
- Dreams
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Aim high …
- We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr
- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work. Daniel H. Burnham
- In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. Henry David Thoreau
- Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off. Phyllis Diller
- The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. Charles de Gaulle
- When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. Vera Nazarian
- Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won’t shoot your foot off. Lois McMaster Bujold
- Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Donald Trump
- Intention, Goal setting
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… and you won’t fail, even if you miss the target …
- It is better to fail aiming high, than to succeed aiming low. Set your sights so high, in fact, that even failure will have in it an echo of glory. Bill Nicholson
- If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. James Cameron
- The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo
- Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars. Les Brown
- If you shoot for the stars, you’ll at least hit the moon. Poor people don’t even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they’re not successful. T. Harv Eker
- When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud, either. Leo Burnett
- Failure
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… whereas if you aim low, you fail even if it’s a bull’s eye
- I’ve always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle. Peter Scott
- People do not fail in life because they aim too high and miss. They fail in life, because they aim too low and hit.
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Think big …
- I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. Donald Trump
- Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams. Cheryl Richardson
- You have to think anyway, so why not think big? Donald Trump
- Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. David Joseph Schwartz
- You have to think big to be big. Claude M. Bristol
- Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
- Think big, dream big, believe big and the results will be big.
- Think big. Think fast. Ideas are no ones monopoly.
- Dream big. Think bigger.
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… by creating a big picture of the future
- Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn’t stuck with the present. David J. Schwartz
- No matter how large the picture that you hold in mind, make it larger. Ernest Holmes
- All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
- How big is BIG? If it doesn’t make you a little nervous — you know that feeling in the pit of your stomach; if it doesn’t take your breath away the first time you think about it, it’s probably not big enough. Vic Johnson
- Vision, Visualisation
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Create goals that stretch you
- Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort. Timothy Ferriss
- Creativity + audacity = mastery. When creating your goals, dream and stretch yourself so you feel a little nervous and that will be your step to mastery. Robin Sharma
- Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting. John Wooden
- Goal setting, Stretch your comfort zone
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Have wild expectations
- Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. Ralph Charell
- There is abundant reason to believe that optimism – big, little, and in between – is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling. Christopher Peterson
- Life is largely a matter of expectation. Horace
- Expectation
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Have a healthy disregard for the impossible
- Dream the impossible dream. Joe Darion
- Optimism is important, you have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called ‘having a healthy disregard for the impossible’. That is a really good phrase you should try to do things that most people would not. Larry Page
- If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. Robert Fritz
- The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. Robert H. Schuller
- So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. Christopher Reeve
- Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. Robert Schuller
- Inside each of us are thoughts and beliefs that hinder our dreams from coming true. Conway Stone
- The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. Will Smith
- Possibility
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Fishing is best where the fewest go
- The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. Timothy Ferriss
- Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy- consuming. It is easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s. Timothy Ferriss
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Start small and then scale up |
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Think big but start small …
- For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, ‘Think big but start small.’ Carmen Busquets
- Start wherever you are and start small. Rita Baily
- Every change starts in a small step. Ron Stolero
- All great things have small beginnings. Peter Senge
- Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. Indira Gandhi
- From small beginnings come great things. Proverb
- The most momentous leaps of growth commonly have as their springboard fairly modest first steps. Nathaniel Branden
- Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. Jonatan Mårtensson
- From small beginnings come great things. Proverb
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting with the first one. Mark Twain
- Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. Mary Manin Morrissey
- Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. Persian Proverb
- Making a start
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… then scale fast …
- It’s a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. Eric Ries
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… while keeping the big picture always in mind
- You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing the small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. Alvin Toffer
- To hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working… Thomas Dekker
- Asking why you are doing something serves as a check and always moves your focus back to the big picture. Asking why helps you find out if your actions have come unglued from your goals. Stever Robbins
- Vision
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Create big plans …
- The universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself. Deepak Chopra
- Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. Daniel Burnham
- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work. Daniel H. Burnham
- Planning, Action plans
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… then break them into small action steps
- Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. Indira Gandhi
- Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gogh
- Great acts are made up of small deeds. Lao Tzu
- Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. Lao Tzu
- It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. John Wooden
- All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together.
- Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise. Alma the Younger (Book of Mormon) Alma 37:6
- Action, Action steps
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