Doing Less Quotes

#1. Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less

Hal Elrod

#2. A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Tom Peters

#3. Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.

Gretchen Rubin

#4. Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#5. Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

James Spithill

#6. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength ... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.

Max Lucado

#8. We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

Vance Havner

#9. You do not overcome the old teaching through doing less, but through doing more. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. It was easy for them to laugh, since I had to do strange things.

C. G. Jung

#10. Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

Tim Ferriss

#11. Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

Matt Ridley

#12. The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

Tim Ferriss

#13. The Ayurvedic route to great health involves two simple steps:
1. Doing less;
2. Being more.

Shubhra Krishan

#14. People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

Merlin Mann

#15. I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

Paul Shaffer

#16. Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

Timothy Ferriss

#17. The Miracle Morning is about focusing on "becoming" more so that you can start doing less, to achieve more.

Kevin Kruse

#18. People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

Bill Nye

#19. Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

Joel Miller

#20. I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

Donald Trump

#21. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive.

Timothy Ferriss

#22. Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created.

Bill Hybels

#23. Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.

Hal Elrod

#24. To computer purchasers, it looks like they're spending more money for more CPUs and the computer is doing less work!

Anonymous

#25. Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.

Neil Young

#26. Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Jim Rohn

#27. Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Joel Osteen

#28. The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

Laozi

#29. Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

Beatrix Potter

#30. Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

Tim Ferriss

#31. 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.

Raymond Kelly

#32. The history of American spaceflight is a history of doing less than had been planned, less than had been hoped for.

Margaret Lazarus Dean

#33. People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent ... I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

Bo Belinsky

#34. People always seemed to be striving towards doing less work. She wonders how they feel when they actually get there, and what they do with their days instead. People get it wrong - it's not no work that makes for the best kind of life, but the right work.

Fiona Robyn

#35. Start doing more by doing less.

Frank Sonnenberg

#36. Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Evan Esar

#37. Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.

Jochen Zeitz

#38. Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.

Timothy Ferriss

#39. Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.

Robert Kiyosaki

#40. I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

Dylan Moran

#41. Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.

Gretchen Rubin

#42. I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

David Byrne

#43. If we spent the majority of our focus just concentrating on our side of the street, not so much on what the next guy is doing, I think I'd get a lot more done - we'd all get a lot more done - and we'd probably have a lot less criticism for everybody else.

Grant Bowler

#44. If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.

Louise Hay

#45. I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.

Willem Dafoe

#46. I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

Sarah Polley

#47. When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.

Peter Capaldi

#48. I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

Simon Cowell

#49. The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

David O. Russell

#50. Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.

Sharron Angle

#51. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa-

A Meredith Walters

#52. When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.

Ayelet Waldman

#53. Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

Peter Drucker

#54. Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier ... It just makes you less likely to quit.

Kate Jacobs

#55. My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

John Cleese

#56. Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

Eric Cantor

#57. I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Vincent Van Gogh

#58. It's not just about being small, it's about doing more with less.

Greg McAdoo

#59. I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.

Andy Ihnatko

#60. I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Robert Rauschenberg

#61. Worry more about being social, and worry less about doing social media

Jay Baer

#62. I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percent less of a laugh.

Neal Brennan

#63. But as the business grows, you get more attention and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give it less to what you're doing.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#64. If there is a less likely sight on this earth than Clint Dempsey, the Texas trailer-park kid, doing downward-facing dog poses, or the stalwart Michael Bradley deep breathing through a tree pose, I have yet to see it.

Tim Howard

#65. Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

Daniel Quinn

#66. Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.

Sydney J. Harris

#67. The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.

Mark McCormack

#68. Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

Robert Kiyosaki

#69. Then there is the curse of multi-tasking. Doing two things at once seems so clever, so efficient, so modern. And yet what it often means is doing two things not very well. Like many people, I read the paper while watching TV - and find that I get less out of both.

Carl Honore

#70. In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

Tim Jackson

#71. Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

Bill Maher

#72. We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).

Vijay Govindarajan

#73. There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Richard Ford

#74. You can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Gary Keller

#75. It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

Ken Robinson

#76. The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.

Brian Tracy

#77. Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.

Robert Kiyosaki

#78. Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

Marcus Buckingham

#79. If an arm-less, leg-less woman on a skateboard could find a man, surely Sophie was doing something very, very wrong? How did this woman meet him? Pull on his trouser leg as she rolled by him in a nightclub?) Now

Liane Moriarty

#80. The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.

Greg Lake

#81. If you're doing it right, love makes you more of who you are, not less,

Laurell K. Hamilton

#82. I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

Joan Lunden

#83. In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.

Tina Brown

#84. it sometimes happened that you would, in the middle of your exertions, be discouraged by the absurdity of what you were in the process of doing: athletic exertion was vanity. You engaged in it less for the joy of the act than in order to exhaust yourself.

Edouard Leve

#85. The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources. Doing better with less means doing it more together.

Stephane Abrial

#86. It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.

Edgar Allan Poe

#87. The truth of the matter is, these mundane tasks must be done. There is no getting around them. Almost everyone has to do a task on a daily basis that is less than fun. The key is to find pleasure in the task and to not wish you were doing something else while doing it.

Jennifer L. Scott

#88. The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.

Carl Honore

#89. What are you doing?" I asked, confused. I hadn't expected him to kiss me. I think I would have been less surprised if the man had bitten me.

K.R. Willis

#90. There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.

Michael Ian Black

#91. There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.

Christina Baker Kline

#92. It's true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I've come to believe there's something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back.

Donald Miller

#93. The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

Robin Sharma

#94. Men and women were doing at their unsurpassed when they were together. It was more or less like the sky and the ground; diverse in nature and was miles apart but they complete each other.

Diyar Harraz

#95. People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?'

David Sedaris

#96. I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread; it's too harsh.

Donna Air

#97. It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

Douglas Trumbull

#98. From a brain perspective, every time we do something we are more likely to do it again, and every time we stop ourselves from doing something we are less likely to do it again.

John Izzo

#99. His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#100. I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.

Criss Angel