Julie Plec

I realized that I get pleasure when I'm told, 'Don't listen to the haters; they're losers in their moms' basements.' I imagine these 'losers' and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them 'pathetic.' I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I'm quick to make a joke at someone else's expense.

American Producer

Khaled Hosseini

You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished.

Afghani Novelist

Jeffrey Wright

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

American Actor

Stephen King

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Author

John Badham

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

British Director

Nicholas Soames

I'm not optimistic for my country. I don't see how we're ever going to project our influence and our standing and our power outside the E.U. Britain's voice is going to diminish, I'm afraid.

British Politician

Hjalmar Schacht

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.

German Economist

Albert Schweitzer

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

German Theologian

Kiri Te Kanawa

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

New Zealander Musician

John Shelby Spong

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

American Clergyman

Use 'diminish' to describe an ongoing process, suggesting gradual decrease.

Progressive Action

'Diminish' often conveys a weakening of emotions, resolve, or determination.

Emotional Weakening

Diminishing something isn't always bad; it can be positive if reducing something harmful.

Not Negative

'Diminish' can imply a change in perception, not actual worth or size.

Subjective Perception

Use 'diminish' when comparing things to highlight lessened importance or value.

Comparison Impact

Diminishing someone or something might not be done on purpose.

Not Always Intentional

In music, 'diminish' expresses a deliberate dynamic change for emotional effect.

Musical Expression

Use 'diminish' to indicate a gradual lowering of sound, not an abrupt stop.

Gradual Change

Diminishing in music requires precise control to avoid abruptness.

Control and Precision

 That's when you begin to choose diamonds over water. And it's not just necessities like water. When it comes to most things, the more of it you acquire, the less useful or enjoyable every additional bit becomes. This is the law of diminishing marginal utility. You might gladly buy two or three helpings of your favorite food,

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 and that window of opportunity happens in the first three years of life. It's not that that window closes; it doesn't. But it diminishes considerably. And yet, the median age of diagnosis in this country is still about five years,

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 than singing its praises, but batteries are a triumph of science. They allow smartphones and other technologies to exist without anchoring us to an infernal tangle of power cables. Yet even the best batteries will diminish daily,

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 And in order to understand the nature of the universe and all these fundamental questions, we must expand the scope and scale of consciousness. Certainly it must not diminish or go out. Or we certainly won’t understand this.

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