Minimize Quotes

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we wish to identify the truly great things in life, we can identify them by the fact that no matter how much we are exposed to them or how often we’re privileged to engage them, they remain great despite what our perception of them might do to them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Saying a man had sex with a child is like saying a man had dinner with the pork chop.”
― Linda McCarriston

“To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sam, I know you’re upset over what happened with you and Drake,” Astrid began.
“Upset?” Sam echoed the word with an ironic smirk.
“But that’s no excuse for you keeping secrets from us.”
“Yeah,” Howard said, “Don’t you know only Astrid is allowed to keep secrets?”
“Shut up, Howard,” Astrid snapped.
“Yeah, we get to lie because we’re the smart ones,” Howard said. “Not like all those idiots out there.”
Astrid turned her attention back to Sam. “This is not okay, Sam. The council has the responsibility. Not you alone.”
Sam looked like he could not care less about what she was saying. He looked almost beyond reach, indifferent to what was going on around him.
“Hey,” Astrid said. “We’re talking to you.”
That did it. His jaw clenched. His head snapped up. His eyes blazed. “Don’t push me. That wasn’t you with your skin whipped off and covered in blood. That was me. That was me who went down into that mine shaft to try to fight the gaiaphage.”
Astrid blinked. “No one is minimizing what you’ve done, Sam. You’re a hero. But at the same time—”
Sam was on his feet. “At the same time? At the same time you were here in town. Edilio had a bullet in his chest. Dekka was torn to pieces. I was trying not to scream from the…You and Albert and Howard, you weren’t there, were you?”
“I was busy standing up to Zil, trying to save Hunter’s life,” Astrid yelled.
“But it wasn’t you and your big words, was it? It was Orc who stopped Zil. And he was there because I sent him to rescue you. Me!” He stabbed a finger at his own chest, actually making what looked like painful impact. “Me! Me and Brianna and Dekka and Edilio! And poor Duck.”
― Michael Grant, Lies

“If safety is my goal, living life is not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“All bear the burden of hypocrisy to some degree. How well do you minimize yours for the sake of fairness and consistency in thought and action?”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Any attribute that we have does not possess the power to define itself as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Rather, any such definition is based solely on what we ‘attribute’ to that attribute.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“So everything I do is to minimize the risk of that happening. That helps me fight the mental urge to doubt myself, to create problems that haven’t happened and overthink everything that could go wrong.”
― Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

“It's a completely different feeling when I return from work now. There are practical benefits: finding things quickly, being able to walk around the car without squeezing against boxes, and feeling less anxiety about the garage that I knew needed to be cleaned.
But the benefits go beyond that. My minimized garage helps me to feel more in control of my life.”
― Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“At what point will I realize that a commitment to self-preservation is in reality an act of self-suffocation?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I must not bend great things to suit myself. Rather, I must bend myself to suit great things. For to do anything else is to trade the exuberance of living for the poverty of existence.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough