Quotes About Decrease

We have decided to consider pleasure and 'pain' in relation to the quantity of excitation present in the psychic life—and not confined in any way—along such lines that 'pain' corresponds with an increase and pleasure with a decrease in this quantity.

Concave functions have slopes that decrease. Concave functions with positive slopes exhibit diminishing returns:

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

The fifth principle [of Arne Naess's principles of deep ecology] states that the flourishing of both human and non-human life requires a substantial decrease of human population. As I said, we are a plague, and our population is out of control. And we don't want to die.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from £34,000 a year to £16,000.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

With the dramatic increase in ease of transportation and the incredible decrease in the amount of time required to travel between far-flung areas of the United States, representatives began spending more and more time in Washington and less and less time in their home districts.

There is a secret key to nurturing your health. This key is an essential secret transmission that any person aiming to take good care of himself must understand and observe. The secret is in the single word decrease. Decrease means to reduce all of your ten thousand affairs and avoid increasing them. Be frugal in everything or, in other words, decrease your desires

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Slowly, the oil and gas sector will decrease in Norway. The question in Norway is about how fast it will decrease.

Punishment always has "fallout." That is you may punish a behaviour you didn't intend to decrease, or you may promote aggression because of missed associations. Your dog may become distrustful of you. Punishment can contribute to arousal and anxiety levels, pushing them ever higher.

Far from being unnatural, as you call, it is commonplace when you have evil conditions. Poverty is more strong than morality. That's another reason why for the world must submit to progress. Misery must be decreased before everyone will choke to death on it.

stock market as measured by the Dow did decrease 25% between 1969 and 1971

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

Lessers were fewer and farther between now than ever, and there had been sightings, by others in the Brotherhood, of a very different kind of foe.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

an increase in the supply of paper money, and hence a decrease in the purchasing power of the currencies in which most bonds were denominated. A rational investor who anticipated a major war would sell bonds in anticipation of these effects.

increasingly little

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public.

For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.

He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30 KJV).