The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of…

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

— Thomas Sowell

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

— Thomas Keller

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has…

— Brian Ferneyhough

“These wild things, I admit, had little human value until mechanization assured us of a good breakfast, and until science disclosed the drama of…

— Aldo Leopold

“The law of diminishing intent says that the longer you delay doing something, the less probability you have of actually doing it.”

— Michael Hyatt

“My respect for the law was diminishing with every exchange. Dickens was right. The law is an ass, and I was starting to think…

— Wendy Buonaventura

“Perhaps, as with cars, there was a law of diminishing evolutionary return, and it was no longer economical to build models with ever larger…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

— Thomas Sowell

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law…

— Richard Lamm

It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The…

— Pete Gill

“Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction”

— Sunday Adelaja

If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

“The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.”

— C.S. Lewis

I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the…

— Neil Cross

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

— Thomas Sowell