evidence: Writers have been deploying sentences that emphasized the contrast between a "little thing" and a "big difference" for more than one-hundred years. Here is an example in a letter about photography printed in Recreation magazine in 1895:[2]1895 May, Recreation, Editor and Manager George O. Shields, (Letter to the editor from Paul A. Ulrich), Volume 2, Number 5, Quote Page 390, Column 2, Published by G.O. Shields (Coquina), New York. … Continue reading In our High School Scientific Association we founded an amateur photographic club, of which I was elected president, and we have pecks of fun out of it. Some of us learned, in a short time, that "little things make a big difference in the wonderful art of photography." [...] Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.