Fewer Quotes:

Live with fewer things that have greater meaning.

- Dominique Browning

topic: Fewer, Greater

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

topic: Past, Achievement, Fewer

Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.

- Francis Chan

topic: Years, People, Fewer

I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

- Paula Poundstone

source: FaceBook post by PAULA POUNDSTONE from Aug 11, 2013

topic: Argument, Fewer

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Artist, Chance, Fewer

The fewer desires, the more peace.

- Thomas F. Wilson

topic: Desire, Fewer

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

- Mark McCormack

source: Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School”, p.25, Profile Books

topic: Blunders, Fewer

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

- Mark Twain

topic: Fewer, Ifs

Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

- Martial

topic: Pain, Joy, Fewer

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

- Martin Luther

topic: Prayer, Let Me, Fewer

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

- Jonas Salk

topic: People, Deficit, Fewer

You don't get fewer followers saying outrageous stuff on Twitter.

- Van Jones

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Followers, Stuff, Fewer

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Differences, Decision, Fewer

The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.

- Robert Breault

topic: Too Late, Aging, Fewer

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

- Henry Hazlitt

source: Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Government, Trying, Fewer

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

- William of Ockham

source: William (of Ockham), Philotheus Boehner (1990). “Philosophical Writings: A Selection”, p.21, Hackett Publishing

topic: Assumption, Fewer

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Want, Riches, Fewer

As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

- J. A. Jance

source: J. A. Jance, Judith A. Jance (1995). “Three Complete Novels”, Random House Value Pub

topic: Fewer

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

- George Carlin

source: George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

topic: Funny, Texas, Execution, Texan, Fewer

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Successful, People, Determined, Neurosurgeons, Road To Success

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

- Geena Davis

source: "How Geena Davis became a champion for women on screen" by Alexandra Spring, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2017.

topic: Girl, Thinking, Watches, Fewer

The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Family, People, Disappoint, Fewer, Small Family

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inspiring, Successful, People, Unsuccessful, Fewer

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.531

topic: Country, Loss, Men, Fewer

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

topic: Men, Gold, Possession, Fewer

We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Since I think agriculture will come back closer to the center of life, I think there will be many vocational opportunities there - especially with the so-called 'value-added' activities associated with food production. That's a windy way to say more local wine and cheese-makers - and probably fewer giant factories producing cheez doodles and Pepsi Cola.

- James Howard Kunstler

source: Source: www.treehugger.com

topic: Wine, Opportunity, Thinking, Wine And Cheese, Food Production

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

- Andrew Vachss

topic: Children, Home, Kids, Geneva, Geneva Convention

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

- Adam Smith

source: Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.460, VM eBooks

topic: Artist, Principles, Machines, Fewer

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

- William Ellery Channing

source: William Ellery Channing (1848). “The Works”, p.310

topic: Strong, Truth, Voice, Fewer

The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others — really see them, wholeheartedly — springs open.

- Barbara Fredrickson

source: Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D. (2013). “Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Spring, Lying, Love You, Wholeheartedly, Fewer

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

- Scott Walker

topic: Jobs, Government, America, Fewer, Unemployment Benefits

Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom. Their failures entail fewer consequences for others. But something of the gay's relationship's necessary honesty, its flexibility, and its equality could undoubtedly help strengthen and inform many heterosexual bonds.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Children, Honesty, Couple, Male Female, Gay Couples

I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.

- Vivienne Westwood

topic: Art, Air, People, Art Galleries, Fewer

Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.

- Pedro Almodovar

source: Interview with Maria Delgado, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

topic: Character, Males, Female, Female Characters, Fewer

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

- William Friedkin

source: "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Revisits To Live and Die in L.A. on Blu-ray". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

topic: Hype, Film, Promotion, Fewer

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.

- David Simon

source: Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2008.

topic: People, Triumph, Needs, Fewer

Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they have alternative paths to realize their plans. Specialists, people with stronger attachments to fewer ideas, should be easier to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have stronger, more sustained negative reactions because they have fewer alternative pathways to realize their plans. Generalists should be the upbeat, positive people in the profession while specialists should be their grouchy, negative counterparts.

- Karl E. Weick

topic: Strong, Attitude, Attachment, Generalists, Specialists

I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

- John Sayles

topic: Jobs, Needs, Investing, Fewer

I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

- Larry Kramer

topic: Thinking, People, Sick, Fewer

I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

- Dave Barry

topic: Humorous, School, Gun, Fewer, High School Junior

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

- Derek Bok

topic: Years, Half, Professors, University Professors, Fewer

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

- Michelle Pfeiffer

topic: Movie, Thinking, Actors, Actors And Actresses, Fewer

When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, ‘Do fewer things.’ It’s true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that’s taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

- Evan Williams

topic: Opportunity, Advice, Marketing, New Company, Fewer

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

- Douglas Coupland

source: Source: feathertale.com

topic: Book, Reading, People, Fewer

I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: time.com

topic: Thinking, Office, President, Fewer

I think that too far, too much, to a greater degree than is anywhere near appropriate, America and our politics are being governed by more and more powerful interests, by fewer and fewer people in the sense of the amount of money that has controlled access and other kinds of things.

- John F. Kerry

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Powerful, Thinking, America, Fewer

I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined. The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people are vegetarian for just one day a week, that makes a huge difference!

- Emily Deschanel

source: "Organic Living with Emily Deschanel". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 5, 2001.

topic: Animal, Thinking, Impact, Big Impact, Fewer

There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause same-sex couples to raise fewer children or impel married opposite-sex couples to raise more children. The Virginia Marriage Laws therefore do not further Virginia's interest in channeling children into optimal families, even if we were to accept the dubious proposition that same-sex couples are less capable parents.

- Henry Franklin Floyd

topic: Sex, Children, Couple, Channeling, Fewer

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

- Eric Idle

topic: Two, Funny Graduation, Remember, Fewer

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

- Evan Williams

topic: Choices Made, Focus, Lessons, Bad Choices, Fewer

Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.

- David McCullough

source: David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

topic: Dream, Hard Work, Character, Love Everyone, Fewer

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

- William Falconer

topic: Temptation, Vices, Way, Fewer

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

- John Newton

source: John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.466

topic: Bible, Christian, Spiritual, Reading The Scriptures, Fewer

Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain

- O. Carl Simonton

topic: Pain, Healing, Joy, Fewer

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Chance, Busy, Too Busy, Fewer

I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

- Dieter Rams

topic: Names, Voice, Apples, Gestalt, Fewer

Italy is now a great country to invest in... Today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries... superb girls.

- Silvio Berlusconi

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Country, Superb, Fewer

Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.

- Michael Lewis

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Order, People, Vote, Fewer

Credibility is a must. Think of all those bloggers that kill us with photos outside the shows - there will be a selection there, too. Not because some are less good, but those that do not impose a style will have fewer requests.

- Franca Sozzani

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Thinking, Style, Credibility, Fewer, Bloggers

Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.

- Alexis Ohanian

source: Source: www.fool.com

topic: Ideas, Care, Excuse, Fewer

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

- Colum McCann

source: Source: www.omnivoracious.com

topic: Character, Jew, Stills, Fewer

I think that both Bernie [Sanders] and Hillary [Hillary] have highlighted how much, over the last few decades, we have seen the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

- Julian Castro

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Concentration Of Wealth, Fewer

In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do more to help achieve such ends.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.publicanthropology.org

topic: Responsibility, Opportunity, Able, Fewer

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

- Bobby Scott

topic: Education, Mean, College, College Courses, Parole

You need a combination of many things to get good results. Experience is one of these, and it can be very useful at the right moment. I don't know if it helps to go faster, but for sure it's an important element that has helped me a lot. Being experienced helps you to make fewer mistakes when you are on track. This is the positive side for being around for so many years!

- Valentino Rossi

source: Source: www.cycleworld.com

topic: Mistake, Years, Track, Fewer

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

- John Perry Barlow

topic: Change, People, Firsts, Cuneiform, Sumerians

Every time I get criticism from people, I learn from it and what to do the next time so there are fewer misconceptions. I'm continuing to be socialized as a woman, but also as a filmmaker.

- Anna Biller

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: People, Criticism, Next, Fewer

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

- Michael Badnarik

topic: War, Needs, Fewer