Diminishing returns Quote by Robert McKee

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

— 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

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

— Michael J. Fox

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

— C.S. Lewis

Our real human nature is revealed better when we are confronted with limited situations, and I think that life itself is an immense accumulation…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“No one can predict the quantity of a lifespan but we can affect our quality of life exponentially.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

— Tony Clark

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

— Graham Greene

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left…

— Edmund Burke

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

— David Clement-Davies

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

— Dorothy Parker