Less Concerned Quotes

#1. I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

Ted Cruz

#2. A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

Geoffrey Beene

#3. I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

Ursula Burns

#4. You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

David Foster Wallace

#5. Excessive record-keeping is a symptom of insecurity and defensive thinking. It indicates that you are less concerned attaining objectives than you are with documentation, and that your thinking is oriented to the past, not the present.

Edwin Bliss

#6. Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.

Barack Obama

#7. We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

Warren G. Harding

#8. Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Neil Patrick Harris

#9. All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I'm having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.

Israel Shenker

#11. What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

Theodore Schultz

#12. When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

LeRoy Neiman

#13. Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

Rob Bell

#14. The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

Joel Edgerton

#15. people who strongly value the pursuit of wealth and possessions report lower psychological well-being than those who are less concerned with such aims.

Jeremy Rifkin

#16. Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

Wayne Dyer

#17. I'm a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I'm not worried about how I'm perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you.

Matthew McConaughey

#18. I'm concerned about myself, but I'm less concerned about 'only myself'.

Mohith Agadi

#19. Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

Matt Chandler

#20. The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.

Sophia Amoruso

#21. We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.

Remi Kanazi

#22. As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

David Blunkett

#23. We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

Larry Crabb

#24. From now on, I determined, I'm going to pay more attention to my husband and be less concerned with my silly little doings.

Janette Oke

#25. What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

Peter Rollins

#26. I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.

Sefi Atta

#27. When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

Idries Shah

#28. Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#29. When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

Jonathan Swift

#30. As a Christian, you ought to be less concerned about where God is bringing you out from, rather, focus on where He's taking you to.

Chris Oyakhilome

#31. [Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions.

Thurgood Marshall

#32. The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#33. In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan.

Lanza Del Vasto

#34. Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.

Dave Ulrich

#35. The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Tommy Douglas

#36. Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

Thomas Merton

#37. On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

Natan Sharansky

#38. It will be a nuisance if he even suspects I spare the merest moment to ponder the Intruder, and he would willfully misinterpret it. I think of her only because I am concerned with their security. The thought was so lame and uncertain in his own mind, it made him growl.

K.M. Shea

#39. The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

Warren Buffett

#40. On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

Henry Hampton

#41. I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

Mos Def

#42. I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#43. The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

Carroll Quigley

#44. Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

Socrates

#45. People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

Tom Daschle

#46. I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

Harri Holkeri

#47. As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

Jeanette Winterson

#48. No one can lead our lives for us. We are responsible for our actions. So people-especially the younger generation
need to be very careful especially where safe sex is concerned.

Salman Ahmad

#49. My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#50. We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

A.J. Muste

#51. It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous. Make sure they are always very 'spiritual', that he is always concerned with the state of her soul and never with her rheumatism.

C.S. Lewis

#52. So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

Arthur Eddington

#53. The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

Michelle Alexander

#54. Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

Vance Havner

#55. Psychoneuroimmunology is concerned specifically with the impact of mental attitudes on the body's resistance to disease, especially exploring the links among and between the mind, the brain and the immune system.

Karol K. Truman

#56. But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.

John Scalzi

#57. I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.

Johnny Marr

#58. Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was ... I'll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn't heard a word because she's studying my face to see if the foundation I'm using is a good match for my skin tone.

Mia Fontaine

#59. In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#60. I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

Patti Smith

#61. Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

Stewart Udall

#62. Size isn't important', he quipped.
I have never adhered to this view. As far as I'm concerned, people who say size isn't important, aren't big enough to admit that they're wrong

Tony Hawks

#63. What idiot told you the law was concerned with morality?

V. St. Clair

#64. Well, I am terribly concerned for your health. One simply should not weigh so much at your age. Lady Maccon poked at a sagging carrot and wondered if anyone would miss her dear sister were she to be oh-so-gently tipped over the rail of the upper deck.

Gail Carriger

#65. But you were concerned about making sure things, you know, didn't get serious."
"Yeah, because I'm an idiot.

Robyn Carr

#66. What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

Jorge Luis Borges

#67. I was clearly fascinated by him, but had the strange sense that he was equally fascinated by me. As far as he was concerned I was the devil itself, but the devil always holds a variety of attractions.

Jacob Wren

#68. Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.

Clive Granger

#69. I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't.

Tom Berenger

#70. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where "traditional values" meant "hang someone." He did not have a problem with this, broadly speaking, but it never hurt to understand your employer.

Terry Pratchett

#71. Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...

John Geddes

#72. As far as I'm concerned, you're changing the fate of another human being. Maybe he isn't meant to be elected to office. Maybe humans deserve to live with electing the wrong person.

Evette Davis

#73. I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

Alexei Navalny

#74. He turned around, suddenly concerned. Are you pregnant? Are you gay? I'd rather you were gay than pregnant. Unless you're pregnant. Then we'll deal. Whatever it is, we'll deal. Are you pregnant?

Rainbow Rowell

#75. With the help of your therapist or healing ally, you can identify who makes you feel uneasy, concerned, scared, or defensive.

Jeanne McElvaney

#76. The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

Hjalmar Branting

#77. Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#78. While these Christians (the majority in a recent poll) are particularly concerned that religious freedoms are being eroded in this country, they also want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture,

David Kinnaman

#79. Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Sigmund Freud

#80. It's not like I didn't think I had any demons. I did, but I could name them- and even provide an address and telephone number for each. As far as I was concerned, those demons could go to therapy instead of me.

Lisa Lutz

#81. Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.

Frederick Lenz

#82. Oh God, that hurts," she whimpered.
"What hurts?" Kye asked, sounding concerned.
"The invisible man pounding spikes into my head."
"That doesn't sound good. Maybe you should take out an invisible Taser gun and zap the son of a bitch.

Julie James

#83. It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.

Aldous Huxley

#84. As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.

Arsene Wenger

#85. I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape!

Mikhail Lermontov

#86. It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

Neil Patrick Harris

#87. As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Charles De Lint

#88. It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

Zadie Smith

#89. There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.

Evan Osnos

#90. As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.

Donald Evans

#91. When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,

Dick Cheney

#92. Mincemeat is decidedly British in its nature and can therefore be disregarded entirely where most civilized palates are concerned.

Clayton Smith

#93. I never watch 'Sopranos' reruns back home. As far as I am concerned, the nuclear family is still sitting around the luncheonette in New Jersey, munching and chatting, safe and together, and that's how it ended for me.

George Vecsey

#94. The United States remains deeply concerned that, to date, no individuals have been convicted for the 1999 killings of U.S. citizens Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet Bytyqi.

Victoria Nuland

#95. The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

Mohsin Hamid

#96. I get very protective of kids on set. I always make a point of telling kids that anything that makes them feel unsafe or concerned they should just speak up about, and then keep an eye on times when that could present an issue.

Julia Ormond

#97. I have my work cut out for me where you're concerned, don't I? (Stryker)
Not really. Hate you today. Will hate you tomorrow. What say we don't waste any time? Give me the sword and let me have your throat now. (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#98. Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.

Geoff Mulgan

#99. Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

Katharine Whitehorn

#100. Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

Anthony De Mello