Top 207 Minimize Quotes & Sayings

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.

As we're unleashing the benefits of communications technologies, we also want to minimize the downsides.

I try to minimize the noise, and I don't use Facebook except for my fan page, and I don't look at anything. It's getting a lot easier.

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

The best way to minimize disagreement is to make sure that all the stakeholders are in the room.

Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned, frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and freshly-prepared food.

Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize activity. It's this constant balancing act that we do.

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

Technology is amoral, but it requires humanistic values to steer it in a way that's empowering, and not detrimental to social progress. It's up to us to maximize the good and minimize the bad.

The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.

When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact.

I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car. Pull over to the side of the road to dial manually, know the features and functions of your phone before you drive and allow voice mail to pick up your calls if you are driving - these are all simple and commonsensical steps we can all take to minimize distraction from in-car cell phone use.

I adore the work of Lucas and Spielberg. I'm certainly not trying to minimize their talents, but I'd love to see what they could do when they aren't leading us from reality.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

Brows more or less can sculpt the face and minimize features you find less flattering.

Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.

There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur.

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.

I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I'm not saying it's good or bad; it kind of is what it is.

There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.

Avoid activities outdoor. If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus].

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?

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest

I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

I know I'm going to make mistakes, but you try to minimize them. Don't make the same ones twice.

All you try to do in any system you incorporate is put players in their areas of strength and try to hide and minimize their weaknesses.

It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.

All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.

Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.

They say in baseball, your little flaws will stick with you from the start. It's just how you can maintain and minimize them.

I always just wanted to play my game, minimize mistakes so I had the best chance to make a roster.

Attempts to minimize the deep racial wounds in our history only set our society as a whole back.

Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.

The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

If you offshore, if you telecommute, if you do anything to minimize your company's physical real estate, there are real consequences to its culture and cohesion.

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.