Top 1200 Thinking Less Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.

The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.

I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.

I've definitely had inappropriate comments. I've had a producer tell me: 'I'm thinking about you constantly.' He didn't say: 'I'm thinking about you for this project.' He said: 'I'm thinking of you constantly.' It's definitely inappropriate. You can't say that to an actor.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.

I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.

You have to play offense and defense without thinking, and react like you know what to do, but if you're thinking of where to be and 1,000 other things you can lose focus. You're trying to play hard, but you're overthinking.

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

Once you get a perfect score, you don't want anything less. When you get less, then I guess it's time to step aside.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.

Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.

I know that sounds contradictory - you're going on a journey, but once you know who your characters are, you become more disciplined and you film less and less.

People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.

In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.

We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering.

Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?

We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.

We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less than it is, and the value of coal was considerably less than it is, there would be much less debate about this.

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.

When you know it's a game, you can have more fun playing it. When things seem serious, you tend to take less risk and have less fun.

We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.