Top 100 Quotes About Discard
#1. To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.
Laura Esquivel
#2. Some people discard their childhood like an old hat.
They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid.
They used to be kids, then they became adults - but what are they now?
Only those who grow up but continue to be children are humans.
Erick Kastner
#3. With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.
David A. Freedman
#4. There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.
Freeman Dyson
#5. To discard what is unwanted, and to retain what is needed, is what reform means.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#6. Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.
Marie Kondo
#7. The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
Ferdinand Marcos
#8. His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.
Christopher Fowler
#9. I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
Leonard Cohen
#10. Often love is offered to you, but you do not recognize it. You discard it because you are fixed on receiving it from the same person to whom you gave it.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#11. You can't change anything unless you can discard part of yourself too. To surpass monsters, you must be willing to abandon your humanity
- Armin Arlet
Hajime Isayama
#12. If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly.
Lao-Tzu
#13. You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts
Forrest Carr
#14. She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.
Harriet Evans
#15. While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird
#16. To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
Richard Avedon
#17. If you feel like you have two or three real passions, don't pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
Austin Kleon
#18. The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.
Chidananda Saraswati
#19. Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.
Charles Spurgeon
#20. The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.
Deborah Eisenberg
#21. Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.
Timothy Noah
#22. I have been your draft for my whole life, let me in or discard me forever.
M.F. Moonzajer
#23. This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#24. Use me. Do anything you want to me." "No," he says chidingly. "You use something you discard. And I'll never be done with you." My
Katy Evans
#25. I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
Lin Yutang
#26. Does the twentieth-century disciple have a right to discard the cultural mandate, twice given to the human race by Jehovah himself? Are we justified in turning the world and culture over to the enemies of God How far does the kingship of Christ extend?
Henry R. Van Til
#27. The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial: they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.
Laozi
#28. To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.
Simon Van Booy
#30. 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
#31. Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.
S.A. Tawks
#32. You learn the old ways, keep what you need, and discard the rest in order to become yourself.
Nancy Ring
#33. The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. What you learn and discard you will forget but what you learn and engage in you will remember forever
Tori Bouwer
#35. Perhaps the activity of discerning culture - sifting through it to highlight its most worthy and discard its most unredeemable - is as essential as the activity of making culture.
Brett McCracken
#36. One of the maxims which the devil, in a late visit upon earth, left to his disciples, is, when once you are got up, to kick the stool from under you. In plain English, when you have made your fortune by the good offices of a friend, you are advised to discard him as soon as you can.
Henry Fielding
#37. If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.
Josh McDowell
#38. That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.
Rick Perlstein
#39. Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#41. To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Ludwig Von Mises
#43. A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
Umberto Eco
#44. Some things we pack away, stick in the back of the closet, never expect to see again - but we can't quite make ourselves discard them. Like
Harlan Coben
#45. So one fundamental attitude shared by Buddhism and science is the commitment to keep searching for reality by empirical means and to be willing to discard accepted or long-held positions if our search finds that the truth is different. By
Dalai Lama XIV
#46. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington
#47. If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.
Lao-Tzu
#48. The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.
Robert Monroe
#49. We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.
Alex Campbell
#50. Don't be afraid to discard work you know isn't up to standard. Don't save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.
David Eddings
#51. If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.
Lu Xun
#52. Our problem is that we don't pay attention to what we actually know. We give our attention to what we think - to what we have ideas or beliefs about - and we discard what we actually see.
Steve Hagen
#53. Truth is the world and falseness is man who lives within his mind world which has copied the world of Truth. Therefore, man must cleanse and discard his mind. He must become "poor in spirit" in order to go to the real world that is heaven.
Woo Myung
#54. Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.
Elijah Muhammad
#55. 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
#56. When you do have really tapped out resources that cover so many investigations, it can help you move through and discard some faster.
Michael Leiter
#58. The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
Freya Stark
#59. Discard that old notion, that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". Good people can't do nothing.
Jenna Brooks
#60. But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.
Laozi
#61. The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna
#62. You imagine blank verse is a liberation, but no. Discard rhyme, you discard a parachute ...
David Mitchell
#63. Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
Nora Roberts
#64. Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.
Marcus Aurelius
#65. It made me wonder about all the ways that we are able to love each other and how movies and TV make it seem like you have to discard people once they break your heart or once the love disappears.
Gabby Rivera
#66. The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.
Gautama Buddha
#67. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest.
L. Ron Hubbard
#69. Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
Stanley Fish
#70. God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right",we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.
Dallas Willard
#71. Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn't.
Neal Shusterman
#72. The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.
Kingsley Amis
#73. In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.
Stanley B. Prusiner
#74. To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious ... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.
William Lloyd Garrison
#75. The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI ... (NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation ... This kind of fraud which I expressed ... and which was openly published ... has ... not resulted in any denial.
Hans Alfred Nieper
#76. All it takes is an ideology seductive enough to convince you to discard common sense.
Cal Newport
#77. The Ideal
This is where I came from.
I passed this way.
This should not be shameful
Or hard to say.
A self is a self.
It is not a screen.
A person should respect
What he has been.
This is my past
Which I shall not discard.
This is the ideal.
This is hard.
James Fenton
#78. It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.
Pope Francis
#79. My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.
Freddie Mercury
#80. If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life. This is something I learned from the playwright Steven Tomlinson.
Austin Kleon
#81. You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.
Martin Walser
#82. I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
Seth Godin
#86. A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No, the adversaries eventually die off, and the upcoming generation is familiarised anew with the truth.
Max Planck
#87. Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.
William Stanley Jevons
#88. In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what you experience of God differs from what you've heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around.
Neale Donald Walsch
#89. Had he learned - would he ever learn - to discard the thoughts he could not use?
Chad Harbach
#90. She liked to think that she was wearing her beauty out - using it up, she liked to think. She took some satisfaction in it, like a housewife industriously making her way through a jar of something she did not enjoy, would not buy again, but couldn't just discard, of course.
Anne Tyler
#91. Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
Laozi
#92. The music should highlight nuances within a collection. I always discard my initial music selection, but it's important to get those more obvious ideas on the table, that way you can move on to something more abstract, yet still relevant.
Mia Moretti
#93. He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Chanakya
#94. A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
George Bernard Shaw
#95. For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum
Thomas Jefferson
#96. Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.
James Salter
#97. You have forbidden me to look for you, you may damn me, you may choose to discard me ... but by the right of the fact that I am alive, I must know that you are ... I must see you this once.
- Dagny Taggart
Ayn Rand
#98. The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
E. E. Cummings
#99. If Black people had simply accepted a status of economic and political inferiority, the mob murders would probably have subsided. But because vast numbers of ex-slaves refused to discard their dreams of progress, more than ten thousand lynchings occurred during the three decades following the war.
Angela Y. Davis
#100. Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We replace the old in return for something that will serve us better.
Alfred P. Sloan
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