Less Quotes

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

I think it's just a lot more pressure to make the scenes work when you're doing a film, because when you're doing a series you feel like, I have so many scenes, so many episodes, so if I don't get it exactly right this time, I have another scene later. You feel less pressure.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.