Quotes About Diminishing Returns

#1. Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns.

Chad White

#2. It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

Rita Mae Brown

#3. Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

Brian Ferneyhough

#4. Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

Thomas Sowell

#5. I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

Ben Harper

#6. "Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead.

Bill Walsh

#7. Truthfully, I don't like the binge-watching model. I think that if you give everybody everything all at once, there's very much a law of diminishing returns as far as their enjoyment of them.

Timothy Simons

#8. Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#9. The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

James H. Austin

#10. The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Thomas Keller

#11. Plateaus are a manifestation of the law of diminishing returns, and when we reach one it simply means that it is time to adjust our methods.

Chris Matakas

#12. I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.

Ted Nugent

#13. While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.

Steve Jurvetson

#14. Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

John Maurice Clark

#16. Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that

Jan Garavaglia

#17. sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns.

Ravi Zacharias

#18. Love is the exception to the law of diminishing returns.

Tommy Wallach

#19. The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.

C.S. Lewis

#20. I've heard, "We live in a world of diminishing returns, when what we give we'll never get back." I say, "What we give returns to us in like-kind 400 times.

Kat Kaelin

#21. Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

Thomas Sowell

#22. The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

Thomas Sowell

#23. The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

Robert McKee

#24. The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

Aldo Leopold

#25. Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Thomas Sowell

#26. The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.

Eli Roth

#27. You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone

Sunday Adelaja

#28. If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

Fiona Apple

#29. Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

Jennifer Niven

#30. February by a nasty bout of flu. I myself will lose my voice. And around Easter, one of our number will leave us forever.

J.K. Rowling

#31. Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

Douglas Rushkoff

#32. It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.

Robert B. Reich

#33. I haven't been to Comic-Con.

Jeff Bridges

#34. Follow your dreams, Bailey," she says. "Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself." Bailey

Erin Morgenstern

#35. Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.

Larry Siedentop

#36. A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

Simon Sinek

#37. ... one of those dreadful boarding schools. It was down on the South Coast. I think some very unpleasant things happened there ... . So many lives were distorted by such cruelty. I know so many men who had to put up with that, so many ... .

Alexander McCall Smith

#38. All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

Cathy Guisewite

#39. I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

Wayne Coyne

#40. Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Alexander Pope