Downplay Quotes
On what gets talked down, and who benefits from that.
Downplaying something isn't always modesty; sometimes it's a deliberate choice about leadership style or public image, as these quotes show. For more on judging situations fairly, see our Assess quotes.
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
People would downplay how good I was, or my athleticism would be the knock, and that added fuel to the fire.
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I was pretty familiar with TikTok: I always thought its videos would be ironically hilarious. When I became a trending topic on there, it was a crazy moment for me. A lot of people will try to downplay it, but...
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
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It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's...
Opponents of New York City's proactive style of policing struggle mightily to downplay its most obvious benefit: the largest crime drop on record, concentrated overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary...
Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.
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Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody...
Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn...
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
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One athlete's quote here points out how downplaying skill can actually motivate rather than discourage. For more on identity and how people carry themselves, browse our Being quotes.
