Discarding Quotes

#1. We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

Rick Perry

#2. Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn't alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

Avra Amar Filion

#3. Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.

Wayne Dyer

#5. My poignant regret is that I so nonchalantly ended my youth, blithely discarding those remaining seasons in the sun.

Lionel Fisher

#6. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Mitch Albom

#7. Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.

Marie Kondo

#8. Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

Scott Cunningham

#9. Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?"

Swami Vivekananda

#10. Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

Mitch Albom

#11. He doubted the hand of God but did not discount it - discarding only the God of the pulpit and the pious.

Jeffrey Lent

#12. The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions.

Angelica Hopes

#13. For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

Lewis Mumford

#14. To summarise, the secret of success is to tidy in one shot, as quickly and completely as possible, and to start by discarding.

Marie Kondo

#15. If you can concentrate on listening to another person - without your own viewpoint getting in the way, without judging or discarding or thinking of a response - for the simple purpose of taking in someone else's reality, you start to understand her.

L. Alison Heller

#16. People have trouble discarding things that they could still use (functional value), that contain helpful information (informational value), and that have sentimental ties (emotional value). When these things are hard to obtain or replace (rarity), they become even harder to part with.

Marie Kondo

#17. The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.

Wayne Dyer

#18. Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.

Pete Hamill

#19. tidying must begin with discarding regardless of personality type.

Marie Kondo

#20. Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Julian Barnes

#21. A hint of the smile remained in his features at all times, particularly when he listened; it was a look of good-natured amusement, as if he were swiftly and patiently discarding the irrelevant in the words he heard and going straight to the point a moment ahead of the speaker.

Ayn Rand

#22. Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.

Deepak Chopra

#23. Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love ...

Hermann Hesse

#24. Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

Emil Cioran

#25. Selecting and discarding one's possessions is a continuous process of making decisions based on one's own values.

Marie Kondo

#26. She knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding the inessential and the essential alike, making use of the stolen pieces and memories, retreating to the lost moments of other people's lives.

Yiyun Li

#27. In the space of one night, [I] had gone through the possessions of my dead wife and child, sorting, discarding, smelling the last traces of them that clung to their clothing like the ghosts of themselves.

John Connolly

#28. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Thomas S. Monson

#29. Faith is continually discarding the absurd, even in the face of the unknown.

Anonymous

#30. So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity.

Italo Calvino

#31. Knowledge grows, and simultaneously it becomes obsolete as reality changes. Understanding involves both learning new knowledge and discarding obsolete and misleading knowledge. The discarding activity--unlearning--is as important a part of understanding as is adding new knowledge.

Bo Hedberg

#32. Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Douglas Horton

#33. I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.

Naval Ravikant

#34. Give thanks for everything that you are and everything that you have - that's the first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality.

Wayne W. Dyer

#35. The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

David Ramsey

#36. So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#37. The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them

Anne Tyler

#38. Giving sacrificially also means giving the best. If we have two blankets and someone needs one of them, sacrificial giving hands over the better of the two. Sadly, much of our "giving" is merely discarding. Donating secondhand goods to church rummage sales

Randy Alcorn

#39. Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

William O. Douglas

#40. In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice.

Mark Twain

#41. Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Robert MacNeil

#42. And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.

Robert J. Morrissette

#43. If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Paul Graham

#44. If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it ... that's a real problem.

Tim Harford

#45. You used words, discarding them meaninglessly, without thinking, whereas I thought they held meaning. I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words. - Broken Places

Rachel Thompson

#46. One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Chogyam Trungpa

#47. we lived depravity
and called it truth, silencing
our dreaming, and
our love, discarding
things holy.

John Daniel Thieme

#48. Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

Andy Warhol

#49. Failure was not an indication of perpetual failure - no! Instead, it was another step along the creative process: we make; we discard. By discarding, I could make again. I could do what I needed to do: write the next book. Write the right book.

Kelly Barnhill

#50. I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

Susan Orlean

#51. Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they'd never happened.

Sarah Ockler

#52. There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,
or enemies,
or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

Carolyn Wells

#53. Civilization is about removing information about our surroundings; discarding information about nature so our senses are not burdened with all that information and our consciousness can concentrate on other matters.

Tor Norretranders

#54. My daily activities are not unusual -
I am just naturally in harmony with them,
Grasping nothing, discarding nothing,
And everyplace there's no hindrance, no conflict.
My supernatural power and marvelous activity
Is drawing water and carrying firewood.

Yun P'ang