Minimising Quotes

#1. Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

Petr Skrabanek

#2. I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true.

Kim Cattrall

#3. You are not responsible for your pain. You are responsible for managing it, controlling it, minimising it.

Niall Finn

#4. People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

Lucy Powell

#5. We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Julian Baggini

#6. Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

Johnny Knoxville

#7. Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence.

Sally Brampton

#8. It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.

Jerry Moss

#9. When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade.

Rob Portman

#10. Reading can take you places you have never been before.

Dr. Seuss

#11. When you fall in love, it is discovering the ocean after years of puddle jumping.

Sarah Kay

#12. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I am not allowed a say in yours?

Jojo Moyes

#13. We're all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. I respect you more than anyone. But right now I'm wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn't make your decision.

Veronica Roth

#15. When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

Margaret Heffernan

#16. I don't want to sit there and be like, 'Oh, I don't care what the audience thinks.' It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.

Donald Glover

#17. Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

Zig Ziglar