No matter how you apply yourself to the larger picture, no matter how hard you toil overall, ultimately it is the smaller things you ignore that let you down. You get rapped on the knuckles for the little undone, rather than noticed for the vast you have done. For good or evil, it is the smaller things that betray you. The most meticulously planned murder or the most carefully executed project could equally end up in disaster for the protagonist because of the minutest detail that was left to chance.
Well, these are from an interesting article I came across in the Sunday news paper on an article about Little Things.
Read the complete article here.
The article concludes very nicely - with this excellent quote :
American author Bruce Barton once said, "Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things... I am tempted to think... there are no little things."
