Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

The end is important in all things.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.

you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.