Best Diminishes Sayings
140 Diminishes quotes by 118 unique authors
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Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
— Vera Nazarian
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The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.
— Marshall Sylver
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One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When…
— Dalai Lama
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When one’s mind is made up... fear diminishes.
— Rosa Parks
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I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed…
— Michele Gorman
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There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
— Henry Cloud
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I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.
— Evgeny Morozov
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Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
— Mason Cooley
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Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.
— Jude Bijou
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Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
— Plutarch
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People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to…
— Michael Newdow
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To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
— Blaise Pascal
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The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
— William Blackstone
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Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.
— David Petraeus
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Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an…
— Everett Dirksen
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Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give…
— Baltasar Gracian
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Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this…
— Dianne Feinstein
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What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty…
— John Dryden
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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
— Thomas Paine
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I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm…
— Rickie Lee Jones
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The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain,…
— Christiane Northrup
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L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you…
— Meher Baba
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Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.
— Robert Muller
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