Dieter Rams Quotes

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

The small things are the big things.

I guess I have an aversion to writing about big events and heroic actions. The everyday has always seemed most important to me in writing, probably because I believe people reveal themselves in how they deal with small details.

Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

Little by little does the trick.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

Christ moves along the pots and pans.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

The secret of losing weight is patience.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

The moment that you have a child - that you know that when he'll turn 18, he'll join the Army and go there for three years of compulsory service - then you can't help yourself of thinking about the future - speculating about it, dreading it or even being - trying to be more active to change it and improve it.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

I think that paying your bills every month, that's not so glamorous or fun, having a job, or when your child gets sick. That's why when there are those special things, they are even more important and you want them to have a purpose.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.