Quotes About Less

The reason you're suffering is you're focused on yourself. People tell me, 'I'm not suffering that way. I'm worrying about my kids. My kids are not what they need to be.' No, the reason [these people are] upset is they feel they failed their kids. It's still about them. . . . Suffering comes from three thought patterns: loss, less, never.

I was much less offended than others were by the CIA's interrogations in the years after September 11.

Women of my generation aren't becoming more conservative as we get older. On the contrary, we're less concerned about what people think.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Miracles are healing because they supply a lack; they are performed by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?

The Democrats' anti-business economic policies would mean less money and fewer jobs in America, which inevitably means fewer opportunities to go on vacation too.

When we think about the trends that millennials are taking toward simplicity, I think it's indicative of a cultural shift toward less of the 'more is more' for materialism sake and more of an emphasis on efficiency, value, and sustainability.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask a little less than you hope to get. I think you should ask more.

Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my input in all aspects of it.

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.

The monetary market is going to value people's time less and less as time goes on, so you need another way to structure their day that rewards them.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

It's not that there is more stupidity. It just has more intrusive ways of presenting itself. It used to be, you could be near an idiot and you wouldn't know it. With today's advances, that's less likely.

The pursuit of a kind of absolute safety, above all other considerations of what makes places good environments, has not only made those streets and cities less attractive, it has, in many cases, made them less safe.

The third question, thankfully, was less emotional. It read: "What is wrong with this statement?" How funny, Reynie thought, and marking down his answer he felt somewhat cheered. "It isn't a statement at all," he wrote. "It's a question.

Well, I thought that would be less embarrassing for everyone than all the things you did say about her," Wren offered.

There's less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank," Bailey said. "They'll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark's.

We are the Few, the Proud, the More or Less Constantly Appalled at Everyone Else.

It appears that the German losses in some of the principal combats were a good deal less than we thought at the time, and that reports on both sides were materially exaggerated.

If you leave you leaving the best so you would have to settle for less.

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining