Quotes About Detriment

Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.

If you were to assume that many experts use their information to your detriment, you'd be right.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

When human beings distance themselves from their own inner truth and the truth around them, we can't see ourselves in our true light and that is to our detriment.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.

Perhaps we know more about the world than we used to, and insofar as knowledge is prerequisite to understanding, that is all to the good. But knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

Physical beauty, however, was frequently more a detriment than an advantage if one wished ever to be respected and valued for one's mind.

She was a spoiler, a needler, an underminer, a diminisher, simply by instinct.

Man is his own worst enemy.

a federal government given land-use powers would be manipulated by the mercantile barons to their own ends, to the detriment of the common people.

Negative statements in selling not only set up resentment in the mind of the prospective buyer, but they also infect the salesperson's own subconscious mind so that it throws off negative vibrations that are picked up by other people and acted upon to the detriment of the salesperson.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'

It seems as though our leaders have almost forgotten about legal immigration and are just leaving our borders open, which is a detriment culturally, financially, and in a lot of other realms for native people.

Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open

I see my share of loons. I just performed with someone who had a meltdown on stage. He needed focus, and he was 'stealing it' and just being crazy and selfish and childish and having a great time doing it - to the detriment of everybody else.

You make peace with one sister only to declare war on the other. It's always like that with peace, isn't it? Always to someone's detriment, already sowing the seed for the next war.

Respect," he declared, "forms the basis of every negotiation with these powers. The respect which one power has for another, is in the exact proportion of the means which they respectively have of injuring each other with the least detriment to themselves.

What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity.

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.