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Pico Iyer

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, ...
SWEDISH PROVERB Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more.
ABIGAIL BUREN Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love m...
SWEDISH PROVERB Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more,...
SWEDISH PROVERB The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
JOSEPH PRIESTLY The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
J. B. PRIESTLEY Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more,...
SWEDISH PROVERB Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;<...
SWEDISH PROVERB European CEOs have to act much more as business politicians ... in the vacuum left over by a world w...
KLAUS SCHWAB What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more l...
SAMUEL GOMPERS We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
REMY DE GOURMONT As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more
JULES RENARD Speak less and say more
ISOBELLE CARMODY Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborat...
J. B. (JOHN BOYNTON) PRIESTLEY Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
ALVAR AALTO Love more, hurt less. Laugh more, cry less. Live more, worry less. Give more, take less. Hug more, f...
ABHISHEK KUMAR A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.
WILLIAM J. MAYO We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
BILL MOYERS As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
DAVID JENKINS The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.
ANTHONY LICCIONE It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, ha...
DAN PINK I'd be less than honest to say it will be exactly the same here. Government (work) has some sense of...
JEFF BUTLER There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to de...
G.K. CHESTERTON We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.
PAUL GILLMOR We shouldn't live in a world where we live in constant terror. We need less dying and more living. W...
IMANIA MARGRIA If we work less, wear less, and eat less, we will be more wealthy, healthy, and wise.
HUGH NIBLEY We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Worry less and focus more. Focus less and worry more !
EPHDAN We need to have more access to more markets abroad, not less access.
BRUCE JOSTEN Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
WILL MOSS Have less. Do less. Be more.
ABOODI SHABY More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love,...
ROY T. BENNETT We have bigger houses but smaller families:
We have more degrees but less sense;
more knowled...
DALAI LAMA Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and mor...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I thin...
AARON SORKIN More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.
TODD AKIN Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to.
JENNIFER NETTLES The more you know the less you need to say.
JIM ROHN There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
DON HEROLD There is nothing so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have
DON HEROLD left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less...
DAVID FRUM Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More co...
RANDALL ROBINSON The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has "Less ex...
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA LAW 4
Always Say Less Than Necessary

When you are trying to impress people with wo...
ROBERT GREENE In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and l...
FRANZ KAFKA An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to un...
GREGORY B. SADLER I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of ...
CHINO MORENO Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less st...
ROY BENNETT [Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of ...
RAYMOND S. MOORE People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
SARAH DESSEN Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
DEEPAK CHOPRA I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get...
ADAM HUGHES The more we have the less we own.
MEISTER ECKHART Less is more, with creativity, and without creativity, less is less.
RONALD ANTON Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and thre...
H. L. MENCKEN Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
UNKNOWN Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
JOHN STEINBECK As time goes on you have to carry more equipment and there is less space. It's going to give us some...
CAPT. ROB RYAN Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing abo...
EDGAR R. FIEDLER But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder ...
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.
CONRAD WOLFRAM We're going to try to do as much and more with less people.
IVETTE MENDEZ The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more...
RICK WARREN To get it done
and see it thru,
find less to say
and more to do.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We need more jobs and less bedrooms,
JACK CAMPBELL To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.
BOBBY CLARKE We are LIVING and DYING at the same time. Some are living more and dying less. Others are dying more...
LORRIN L. LEE We're doing some very exciting, bold things, pioneering content on mobile and for broadband, ... My ...
ANDY DUNCAN Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
RABBI J. GORDON Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
JULINS GORDON Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
RABBI JULIUS GORDON I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
R. LEE ERMEY I am learning more and more about less and less and I own everything about nothing
DIMITRIS TIMOTHEATOS The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the l...
PABLO PICASSO there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to f...
MIKE LEE Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly ...
LOUIS SULLIVAN There is a lot to be said in the Decade of Evangelism for believing more and more in less and less.
JOHN YATES Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ri...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We will have to pay less than we had expected, but we will pay more than in the past.
THOMAS STEG Choose more on less than less on more.
SAW RUB Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Acquire less. Give more. Enjoy freedom.
LORRIN L. LEE We were going to attempt to strike out less, and by striking out less, sometimes you walk more. But ...
JOE MADDON A delay allows people to have less psychology and more orderly behavior.
DONALD YACKTMAN As we migrate customers from NetWare to OES, we're putting more resources in OES and less in NetWare...
BILL HEWITT If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepar...
LUIGINA SGARRO I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
IAN SCHRAGER He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, bec...
CHARLES COLES I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles...
MICHIO KAKU Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. -Unknow...
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Neither mortal or immortal,
So that with ...
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