Diminishing Returns Quotes

• I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

  Ben Harper

  Interviews, Return, Bores

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• The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

  Thomas Keller

  Believe, Law, Return

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• Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

  John Maurice Clark

  Knowledge, Return, Instruments

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• Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

  Thomas Sowell

  Social Values, Safety, Diversity

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.110, Basic Books

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• Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

  Thomas Sowell

  Law, Principles, Return

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.109, Basic Books

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• Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

  Thomas Sowell

  Law, People, Negative

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.108, Basic Books

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Science, Law

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Passion, Heart

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.199, Penguin

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• As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then, I'll just keep plodding onward, putting one foot in front of the other to the best of my ability. Smiling the entire time.

  Dean Karnazes

  Passion, Heart, Feet

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.199, Penguin

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• The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.

  Eli Roth

  Law, Scary, Negative

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• There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Trying, Use, World

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• "Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead.

  Bill Walsh

  Emotional, Effort, Tolls

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.188, Penguin

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• The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

  James H. Austin

  Work, Walking Meditation, Too Much

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.9, MIT Press

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• Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that

  Jan Garavaglia

  Athlete, Games, Trying

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• I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.

  Neil Cross

  Hate, Law, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Nice, America, Brain

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.273, Bantam

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

  Robert McKee

  Sex, Law, Return

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• We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way.

  Umair Haque

  Fashion, Business, Real

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• If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Responsibility, Adults

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

  Julia Stiles

  Opportunity, Thinking, Return

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

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• I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Balance, The End Of The Day

  "TED NUGENT Says PANTERA's Version Of 'Cat Scratch Fever' Had 'No Soul, No Balls". Blabbermouth.net, May 14, 2006.

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• If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Law, Firsts

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

  Aldo Leopold

  Law, Progress, Opponents

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Use between three and five photos in your gallery. Galleries with more photos are more competitive, but after five they seem to pass a point of saturation and diminishing return.

  Amy Webb

  Three, Use, Return

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