Decrements X Quotes & Sayings

When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record. — Ellen MacArthur

So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements. — Shelby Harris

I had a girlfriend when I was 17-18, and when she was 21, she wanted us to get married. I couldn't do that, because my game was my priority. We had to part ways, and there was no guilt because I had never committed to marriage. — Suresh Raina

I mean people are really crazy about minor decrements down. And then, if you act on them, then you get into reciprocation tendency, because you don't just reciprocate affection, you reciprocate animosity, and the whole thing can escalate. And so huge insanities can come from just subconsciously over-weighing the importance of what you're losing or almost getting and not getting. — Charlie Munger

Knowing what you have makes all the difference. — Emily P. Freeman

Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot. — Shelby Harris

I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream! — Donald Freed

I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing. — Barry Hannah

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration. — Elizabeth George

You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny. — Joel Osteen

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell

Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand. — Robert Jervis

One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray. — Boyd K. Packer

I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively). — Roger Clemens

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn. — Dean Koontz

A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point ... and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas. — Maureen Johnson