Subtract Yourself Quotes

#1. I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind.

Orson Scott Card

#2. If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

Akira Kurosawa

#3. The more you subtract, the more you add,

Jean Kilbourne

#4. Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. But true giving is not an economic exchange; it is a generative act. It does not subtract from what we have; it multiplies the effect we can have in the world. Many

Kent Nerburn

#6. At the end of every year, I add up the time that I have spent on the phone on hold and subtract it from my age. I don't count that time as really living. I spend more and more time on hold each year. By the time I die, I'm going to be quite young.

Rita Rudner

#7. Once you have learned how to subtract the gross form of 'my', subtract the subtle form of 'my'. Thereafter, subtract the subtler and the subtlest forms. After subtracting all that, 'I' [Self] will be separate!

Dada Bhagwan

#8. Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.

Neal Stephenson

#9. The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

Christopher Titus

#10. Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

Thomas Wolfe

#11. The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.

Arthur Koestler

#12. What do I need to Subtract from my life? What do I need to do Less of? What do I need to Add to my life? What do I need to do More of?

Louis Efron

#13. Everyone knows how to subtract the gross form of 'my' (tangible 'my'). But how can he know how to subtract the subtle, subtler and the subtlest forms of 'my'? That is the work of the 'Gnani Purush' [the enlightened one].

Dada Bhagwan

#14. To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

Janet Coleman

#15. If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Epicurus

#16. Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

Urs Fischer

#17. A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

Joyce Carol Oates

#18. Ah, hello." He gathered his courage. This was just like reading poetry, but subtract poems and add people casually placing hunting knives and daggers on their tables. One of the women was filing her fingernails into sharp points, like claws. Just like reading poetry.

Cynthia Hand

#19. If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.

Matt Chandler

#20. The questions that we must ask ourselves, and that our historians and our children will ask of us, are these: How will what we create compare with what we inherited? Will we add to our tradition or will we subtract from it? Will we enrich it or will we deplete it?

Leon Wieseltier

#21. Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.

Kool Moe Dee

#22. To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.

Charlotte Wood

#23. The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.

Learned Hand

#24. Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

#25. Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Ian Fleming

#26. If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50 years old, subtract your age from 100 and only grant it that many pages.

Nancy Pearl

#27. A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Francesco Petrarca

#28. Pride lives on the defensive against anyone and anything that tries to subtract from its self-sustained worth. Confidence, on the other hand, is driven by the certainty of God-given identity and the conviction that nothing can take that identity away.

Beth Moore

#29. As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.

Francis Collins

#30. These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.

Caroline Knapp