Eliminating Quotes

#1. Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.

Phil Condit

#2. Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

Shai Linne

#3. Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Phil Crosby

#4. If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

William Glasser

#5. China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

Virginia Foxx

#6. You see, when you're in love, you look for similarities with your beloved. Since the root of all conflict is seeing differences between yourself and another, love truly seems to be the key to eliminating conflict.

Doreen Virtue

#7. We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

Roger Ailes

#8. It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

Sheryl Crow

#9. My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.

John R. Leopold

#10. The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

Bayard Rustin

#11. There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Elbert Hubbard

#12. It is always much more difficult for Christians to detect a fundamentally sinful attitude in other Christians than in pagans - especially if that attitude is endemic to contemporary society, thereby reducing or eliminating the "shock" force of that sin.

D. A. Carson

#13. Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.

Jim DeMint

#14. Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.

Alexander Kjerulf

#15. How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?

Greg Sams

#16. Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#17. The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

Angelina Love

#19. If women want a feminist revolution - ours is a world that is crying out for feminist revolution - then we must assume responsibility for drawing women together in political solidarity. That means we must assume responsibility for eliminating all the forces that divide women.

Bell Hooks

#20. What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.

Diane Ladd

#21. Naturalism attempts to fortify itself against God by altogether shutting Him out of public life, social policy, the courts, and eliminating all biblical influence in morality and ethics.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#22. If you think that political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient people and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.

James "Doc" Crabtree

#23. Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

Douglas Rushkoff

#24. Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

Gerald May

#25. By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

Jim Ryun

#26. There is a
big difference between eliminating waste and not creating
it in the first place.

Alan Shalloway

#27. But I know my only defense is to answer, "I think it because it is true," thereby eliminating my subjectivity;

Simone De Beauvoir

#28. I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.

William Zinsser

#29. I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

Martin Seligman

#30. People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy.

Narendra Modi

#31. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Octavio Paz

#32. It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

Pope Francis

#33. What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

Ann Coulter

#34. The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.

James Hillman

#35. The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation ... There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease.

Robert S. Mendelsohn

#36. Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. Many principles and practices have been created for the purpose of controlling or eliminating it.

Robert C. Martin

#37. Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Irwin Redlener

#38. It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?

Cheryl Richardson

#39. The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.

Terry Pratchett

#40. Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

Brian Greene

#41. Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

Jonathan Lethem

#42. I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

Jerry Falwell

#43. The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda.

Chris Sanders

#44. [Liberals] think they can pass a law eliminating guns and nuclear weapons, but teenagers having sex is completely beyond our control.

Ann Coulter

#45. Even though I'm a family guy, there is something that feels really beautiful about eliminating all children from flying. So, children have to fly on child-only planes. And the pilots have to be children as well.

Jay R. Ferguson

#46. I mean, you've got to protect human health beyond everything, and so we think eliminating shared-use antibiotics is the right way to go.

Craig Wilson

#47. A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

Nick Clooney

#48. I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.

Adam Hasner

#49. Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#50. We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.

Robert Reich

#51. My statement is thus that we can only end this downfall of European intergovernmental decision-making by eliminating the intergovernmental operating system completely, in favor of a European Federation.

Leo Klinkers

#52. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

Dieter Rams

#53. I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth.

Jeb Bush

#54. The widespread enthusiasm for reducing government taxes and other impositions is not matched by a comparable enthusiasm for eliminating government programs - except programs that benefit other people. The

Milton Friedman

#55. Who would've guessed that by simply eliminating GMOs from my diet, I could lose 20 pounds, drop my blood pressure by 40 points, and level out my blood sugar levels...all in just 21 days!

Brett Allen

#56. [It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

Thurgood Marshall

#57. I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

Eugene H. Peterson

#58. But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

Simone De Beauvoir

#59. Eliminating one weakness is better than adding one strength.

Tsutomu Ohshima

#60. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Edwin Way Teale

#61. Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#62. Only eliminating all pains in the ass the real mild and gentle man can live in peace.

William C. Brown

#63. Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

Dinesh D'Souza

#64. I'm someone who is very supportive of us eliminating all discrimination.

Angela Merkel

#65. Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.

Jean Chatzky

#66. I'm obsessed with cheese and milk, but eliminating them from my diet made the biggest difference. In a month and a half, I lost 11 pounds just from not eating dairy, without doing anything else different, and that totally blew my mind.

Khloe Kardashian

#67. You must get comfortable with eliminating things in your life that are getting in the way of clarity and focus.

Todd Henry

#68. I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

E. O. Wilson

#69. If the Republic of China, is going to move forward with their noble idea of making Sri Lanka a Shipping Hub, then the country must focus on eliminating corrupting bugs in the bed.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#70. A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he's concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.

Fernando Pessoa

#71. If only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts.

Orson Scott Card

#72. The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

John Szarkowski

#73. Eliminating the death penalty ... will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

Scott Harshbarger

#74. One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.

Eric Holder

#75. Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

Gerry Mulligan

#76. I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Invasion' or 'fall of the Berlin Wall' of our generation ... the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

Pete Hegseth

#77. Eliminating someone from an investigation is just as important as getting a positive lead.

Henning Mankell

#78. On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.

Jim Ramstad

#79. How to keep the seductive ghost of bliss long absconded from baiting you and hooking you and pulling you back out and eating your heart raw and (if you're lucky) eliminating your map for good.

David Foster Wallace

#80. I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Thomas Menino

#81. The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#82. Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

#83. Part of the pursuit of excellence involves eliminating as many surprises as possible because life is full of the unexpected.

Alex Ferguson

#84. The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Bernard Baruch

#85. Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.

Dave Barry

#86. As parents we also define ourselves by what we bring our attention and presence to. This is easy to forget when daily life feels more like triage. By eliminating some of the clutter in our lives we can concentrate on what we really value, not just what we're buried under, or deluged with.

Kim John Payne

#87. Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'

Brian L. Joiner

#88. The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life ... the new career arc.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#89. Eliminating spin improves transparency and trust.

James Kerr

#90. I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Roy Blunt

#91. This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

Michael Moore

#92. I disagree that we need to contemplate eliminating ourselves in order to move forward. Sure, I think a good dystopian story can serve to steer us on the right path toward a better world. But we also need stories that offer solutions to our problems that are realistic, and workable today.

Annalee Newitz

#93. The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

Thomas Sowell

#94. The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.

Dennis Prager

#95. You have a divine right to choose whom you will play with and under what circumstances. By eliminating any energy drag, the positive good things in your life will resonate faster and faster.

Stuart Wilde

#96. When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is known as 'herd immunity.'

Michael Specter

#97. I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way.

Mishka

#98. The more you fail is the more you get closer to success because you lessen your chances of failing by not only confronting wrong paths but also eliminating them from the scenario, thus remaining with the right ones

Nathanael Kanyinga

#99. Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Aaron Siskind

#100. You solve a problem not by eliminating the problem but by changing the perception and awareness of the problem.

Debasish Mridha