Diminish Quotes · Page 6

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

— Tod Machover

“The only thing that can diminish your talent and ability is losing faith in that talent and ability.”

— K.S. Thompson

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

— Vera Nazarian

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

— Steve Erickson

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

— Frank Ocean

The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.

— Marshall Sylver

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

— Stephen King

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is…

— Ismail Merchant

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

True rights, such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to be natural or human rights, exist simultaneously among people. That…

— Walter E. Williams

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

— Mark Victor Hansen

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are…

— Justin Welby

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we…

— Nancy Pelosi

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them…

— Max Beerbohm

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else…

— Jack Schwartz

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to…

— Rosa Parks

I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an…

— Halle Berry

[Donald] Trump ditched his press pool. That's just stupid and funny. Get over it. You know, [Bill] Clinton ditched his press pool.…

— Trevor Noah

The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small,…

— Harriet Martineau

We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit…

— D. Todd Christofferson

Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first…

— Baltasar Gracian

E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L…

— Albert Einstein

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish…

— Maya Angelou

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.

— Virginia Axline

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

— Marcus Aurelius

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

— Aeschylus

We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

— Kapil Sibal

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

— Alan Dershowitz

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

— Sam Storms

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

— Richard Selzer

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

— John C. Maxwell

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

— Mark Twain

Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.

— Daisaku Ikeda

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

— Kanye West

“Wanting what others have, can only diminish what you already have”

— Darlene Dawne

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

— Will Smith