There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.
Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.
Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.