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Small details can make a huge difference

By Zhu Yuan | China Daily | Updated: 2011-04-27 07:59

Heavenly Small Things, the title of a book, might seem at first a contradiction. But it is actually not.

In the traditional Chinese perception of nature, nothing is bigger or more important than heaven. For example, the expression tianda de shi (something as big as heaven) is often used to describe something of top concern.

So heavenly small things implies that unimportant things require as much attention as bigger concerns.

Small details can make a huge difference

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