Top 129 Detriment Quotes & Sayings

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

Once Bob commits to something, it's almost like a child. He doesn't want anybody else to take care of it, even if it might be to his detriment.

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

I'm strong. I'm smart. I'm not a victim,' to my detriment.

I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.

A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.

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.

The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

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

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.

We have to find a way that every Coloradan can participate in our economic growth and feel that all the changes that are occurring are working to their benefit rather than their detriment.

There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

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

I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.

I'm actually very loyal, to my detriment.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.

I've become very cognizant of how people are perceiving me, which is a little bit to my detriment.

To my detriment I'm quite rosy-visioned about the idea of love. It's slightly embarrassing but it's part of who I am.

Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.

I would say that California has been focused on climate change to the detriment of the other environmental programs.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share.

Not only is individual liberty part of California's heritage, it's a classic conservative principle - one that Republicans have ignored to our own detriment.

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.

It can be a detriment to yourself to not be working, but at the same time, you want to hold true to what you're wanting to be working on.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

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.

I think we've all done things that are a detriment to ourselves, and we've all made good choices that have brought good things for us.

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.

Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged.

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.

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.

I still have the mentality of a street musician, because I was one for five years. Every opportunity that comes my way, I feel like, 'Absolutely, let's do this.' Sometimes, it's to my detriment. But I don't think you become successful by not saying yes to opportunities.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.

To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

The record business is changing a lot, and I don't think to the detriment of music - I think, if anything, it's helping music. It's to the detriment of the business in some aspects. In many ways, you might say this is not the time to be going back to the majors, it's the time to be leaving them, which is a good point.

A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.

I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.