"When people have a hard task to do……" — Idries Shah
"When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters."
More Become Less Quotes
- Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it… — Harry Browne
- My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous… — John Cleese
- You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. — Keri Russell
- As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those… — Miyamoto Musashi
- The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time,… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
- Every time you make the right choice in the face of potential criticism you build strength that makes choosing the… — Richard G. Scott
- Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of… — Stanley Crouch
- More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled… — John W. Gardner
- There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer… — Ben Bernanke
- The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. — Charlotte Bunch
- When you make a choice to be of service to others, you gain the courage and sense of determination that… — Cheryl Richardson
- We're all naturally curious when we're eight years old. But as most people get older, they become less and less… — Ron Miriello