Quotes About Minimization

#1. Minimization is what happens when we take the "world is flat" idea too far ... and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences).

David Livermore

#2. What is so terrible about transaction costs? On what basis are they considered the ultimate evil, so that their minimization must override all other considerations of choice, freedom, and justice?

Murray Rothbard

#3. REJECTION MINIMIZATION THEOREM (RMT):
Think about it: boys basically, want to kiss girls. Guys want to make out. Always. Hassan aside, there's a rarely a time when a boy is thinking, Eh, I think I'd rather not kiss a girl today.

John Green

#4. Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

Henry Petroski

#5. In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

Hillary Clinton

#6. The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.

Dorothee Solle

#7. Trust those you love, and that love you in return," she said. "It will hurt more if they betray you, but at least you'll still know joy." - Zusa

David Dalglish

#8. He tells me to pick the music. I'm not sure if he knows that handing me his iPod is like handing me the window to his soul.

Becky Albertalli

#9. Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm. I try to brush it off as I've brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father when I was young, as I've brushed off so much since Benton has known me.

Patricia Cornwell

#10. Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information

Jeremy Campbell

#11. Even indecision is a decision.

Toni Sorenson

#12. In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

James Clerk Maxwell

#13. Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#14. Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. And let's stop calling them "sex offenders," as if their crimes had anything to do with sex. (Perhaps Jeffry Dahmer was a "food offender.")

Mike Lew

#16. It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself (p. 5)

Cathy Caruth

#17. Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs

Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather.

S. Caroline Taylor

#18. I loved the flowers that die, I loved the charm of the sky.

Santosh Kalwar