Quotes About Minimization

the result of denying and minimizing our wounds over many years is that we become less and less human, empty Christian shells with painted smiley faces.

The law of least effort is operating here. He will think as little as possible.

When you worship, you are saying, "This one is worth more." At the same time you are implying, "I am worth less." Worship is the magnification of God and the minimization of self. One of the most succinct expressions of a worshipper's heart in all the New Testament came from John the Baptist: "He must increase, but I must decrease."5

There is a big difference between eliminating waste and not creating it in the first place.

Every time I turn on the TV, it infuriates me. You'll see an ad for Advil or Viagra and hear some monotonous voice warn you about even the smaller side effects like headaches or nausea. When you see a tampon commercial, it's all happy teenage girls running along the beach in bikinis. The dangers are beyond minimized.

There's no scandal involved," she said airily. "I have no connection with you whatsoever. I have nothing to do with you. You are a thimble filled with water next to my ocean. You are a grain of sand to my beach. You are a tiny star in the sky. You're nothing to me.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

Growth hackers don't tolerate waste.

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

People generally prefer problem-avoidance and problem-containment to problem-solving.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

Technology undoubtedly has, and will always have, some role in making life easier or better, so one shouldn't exclude it. But the role is supplemental. Technology serves us, not we technology. The principle of minimation can be roughly stated thus: it is better to find a non-technological solution than a technological one, or failing that, a less technological solution than a more technological one.

In general, it is harmful to depend on modules that contain more than you need. This is obviously true for source code dependencies that can force unnecessary recompilation and redeployment—but it is also true at a much higher, architectural level.

Because it was the income he had to work the least for, it is often the least taxed

we may seek to impose severe restrictions upon what, how and when we engage with others so that the risks are statistically minimised.

We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.

Large portions of the productivity gains from agile methods come not from doing things better, but from not doing them at all.

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.

So the way to express the goal is this? Increase throughput while simultaneously reducing both inventory and operating expense.

The other conservative use of reflexivity depends upon getting those votes. Once in office, conservatives can not only say that government cannot work and has to be minimized and privatized, but by being in the government, they can also stop it from working, thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. How? By cutting taxes, by cutting funding, by passing laws, and, in the Supreme Court, by reinterpreting laws.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.