Subtracting Quotes

#1. When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#2. The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It's more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again.

Brad Warner

#3. Constructionism thus impoverishes humanity, by subtracting from our human powers and accrediting all of them - selfhood, reflexivity, thought, memory and emotionality - to society's discourse.

Margaret Scotford Archer

#4. I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?

Sherman Alexie

#5. It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#6. Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#7. For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

Tim O'Brien

#8. Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

Charlotte Moss

#9. All their Immanuel Kants together couldn't do it! It didn't enter the heads of all their Kants to build a system of scientific ethics, that is, ethics based on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#10. The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.

Matt Chandler

#11. When things aren't adding up in life, start subtracting.

Anonymous

#12. Measuring time isn't as simple as adding or subtracting minutes from a clock...You must find your own measuring stick.

Lindsay Eagar

#13. When something or someone is no longer bringing you up, but pulling you down - it's time to let go. When something or someone is no longer adding to your life, but subtracting from it - it's time to let go.

Mandy Hale

#14. Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.

Colin Chapman

#15. Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

Federica Montseny

#16. You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.

Daniel Dennett

#17. Her touch is like doing simple math
When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes
There is a red ink, like a sparkling red wine, adding colors
Dividing body, remembering gods, without multiplying

Santosh Kalwar

#18. They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Thomas Reed

#19. 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

#20. And when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe. Still,

Tim O'Brien

#21. When science tries to resolve its conflicts by adding and subtracting dimensions to the Universe like houses on a Monopoly board, we need to examine our dogmas.

Robert Lanza

#22. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

John Maeda

#23. The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.

Mark Helprin

#24. If you're trying to add something to your life without subtracting something else, there's a good chance the stuff that's already there will win.

Ed Cyzewski

#25. Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Matthea Harvey

#26. If the past was the age of adding to one's mind, now is the age of subtracting what is in his mind. A person who subtracts his minds in this time will recover his original nature.

Woo Myung

#27. Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

Billie Jean King

#28. In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.

Vironika Tugaleva

#29. If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

Alberto Manguel

#30. The brain can think, but the heart knows better. So follow your instincts, follow your inner feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we create for ourselves is the biggest gift we can ever receive.

KoKo Nervelli

#32. Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.

Esther Hicks

#33. The fact is, many people do not know how treat themselves and are experts at putting themselves down. In fact, if most of us were in a relationship with ourselves, we would break up with us, given how badly we treat ourselves.

Ramani Durvasula

#34. But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Alfred Lord Tennyson