Quotes for All
When a person’s primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of “pushing” (trying to push away from discomforts) and “grabbing” (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual “pushing and grabbing” approach to … Read more
I believe the best way to activate genius within the immune system is by ingesting certain superherbs and superfoods, taking probiotics and cultured foods, minimizing toxic food exposure by eating pure organic raw-living foods, and making appropriate healthy lifestyle improvements. David Wolfe
I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes. David Platt
Minimization is what happens when we take the world is flat idea too far…and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences). David Livermore
Global warming … may be a plaintiff lawyer’s dream. And it’s interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused. David Ignatius
Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull. Daphne Merkin
I have to do a better job of minimizing the damage in that inning and getting us back in there with the lead still. Clay Buchholz
In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables – like the discount warehouses of Costco. Charlie Munger
Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy. Carolyn Hax
I’m still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I’d like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them. Caroline Knapp