Sentence examples for reducing yourself from inspiring English sources

It's a false dichotomy: reducing yourself to two options when so many more exist is reductive and silly.

Never ever give up on yourself by reducing yourself to a lifetime psychiatric diagnosis.

It's all very well reducing yourself to nothing by chopping wood or carrying water -- and then sitting in a silent meditation hall so long that your legs go dead (and your mind with it) -- but how do you deal with all the poisons and the possibilities that the mind throws up?

In essence, surrender the next 24 hours and reduce yourself to the dribble-like state of post-gig drummers.

Don't do a runner on your hotel bill if you want to remain incognito, and don't dig into the cargo and reduce yourself to a jittering caricature of sweaty paranoia shortly before presenting yourself at the check-in desk for the flight home.

But speaking of the lawsuit, Mr. Najib, who heads a chapter of the American-Arab AntIfDiscrimination Committee, said, "If you feel it's getting to be too hot for you, walk away with honor and dignity, but don't reduce yourself and diminish our religious faith for a few dollars".

It's easier to reduce yourself to a being worthy of compassion.

It's not realistic, enlightening or empowering to reduce yourself or your child to one of these diagnoses.

But when you reduce yourself to making people's reactions to meaningless events the story, you've created a system that's easy for bad actors to game.

The idea was to reduce ugliness in the world by reducing ugliness in yourself.

You find yourself reducing what happened and deciding it isn't so bad, it doesn't really matter.