Diminishes Quotes

You know, this business is pure luck. It truly is. There is a tangible amount of luck that is necessary for a successful career, and the only way that luck happens is if you`re prepared for it and you stick with it. If you drop out of the scene, your opportunity for luck diminishes greatly. No one`s going to say, `Hey you`re an insurance salesman. Come and do this movie.`

I`ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I`ve always said `yes` to the thing I`m most scared about. The fear of letting myself down -- of saying `no` to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, `I wish I`d had the guts to say this or that` -- that galvanizes me more than anything.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one`s self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

I have learned over the years that when one`s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man`s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.