Quotes About Reduction

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

When things aren't working, the natural inclination is to throw more at the problem. More people, time, and money. All that ends up doing is making the problem bigger. The right way to go is the opposite direction: Cut back.

The lesson and the imperative of psychoanalysis is not "Let us devote all our attention to the sexual (meaning) as our ultimate horizon"; it is instead a reduction of sex and the sexual (which, in fact, has always been overloaded with meanings and interpretations) to the point of ontological inconsistency, which, as such, is irreducible.

Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

A mere glance at things as they are is enough to make it clear that the aim is everywhere to reduce everything to uniformity, whether it be human beings themselves or the things among which they live, and it is obvious that such a result can only be obtained by suppressing as far as possible every qualitative distinction.

Trayless cafeterias. Cafeteria managers have been taking a keen interest in reducing food waste. Seeing how easy it is to load up a tray with extra food that often goes uneaten and extra napkins that go unused, curious managers and students at Alfred University in New York tested a trayless policy over two days. When trays weren't offered, food and beverage waste dropped between 30 and 50 percent!

Caldwell concluded that welding equipment and materials would cost no more than riveting, while the cost of labor would be reduced substantially.

The idea was that the brain is part of nature, nature alone is real, so consciousness can be found in an empirical study of the brain—this is a horrible reduction to monological surfaces.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.

What happens in stories is what happens in stories: the telling and retelling simplify and reduce. History gets written in the wind that keeps blowing; if it's not too strong you don't even notice it. The lights are bright and there's so much shouting and scrambling.

By reducing the population, it would alleviate the conditions of poverty and unrest that might lead developing nations to embrace communism, and instead promote the growth of markets for consumer goods and the embrace of capitalism.

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.