Quotes About Elimination

I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

It's hard to go from good to great. You go from one to seven by eliminating stupid things. Let's not have 12 penalties in a game. And you surprise some people. When you're a seven-win team, everyone sees you coming.

He felt the withering of something, the way risk was increasingly eliminated, replaced with a bland new world where the viewing of food preparation would be felt to be more than the reading of poetry; where excitement would come from paying for a soup made out of foraged grass. He had eaten soup made out of foraged grass in the camps; he preferred food.

And mental states may be inferred from actions. The tyrant rarely sends a handwritten note requesting the elimination of an enemy.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.

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.

Cut anyone and everyone out of your life that makes you feel small, hurt, humiliated, stupid, worthless, etc. do it swiftly and violently and without remorse.

mousetrap n. rodent elimination device

genocide n. 1. ethnic cleansing When Serbian gunmen go door-to-door in a Bosnian town pulling Slavs and Roman Catholic Croats from their homes at gunpoint and herding them forcibly onto cattle trucks and deporting or later shooting them, the Serbs call it "ethnic cleansing." - New York Times, May 22, 1992 2. depopulation 3. elimination of unreliable elements

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

whenever there are some people calling for the elimination of the class that lives by collecting interest, there will be others to object that this will destroy the livelihood of widows and pensioners.

If 37 percent to 40 percent of jobs are completely pointless, and at least 50 percent of the work done in nonpointless office jobs is equally pointless, we can probably conclude that at least half of all work being done in our society could be eliminated without making any real difference at all.

This edition of The Making of a Quagmire differs in a number of ways from the original one. Approximately one-third of the text has been cut in an effort to eliminate material that seemed clearly redundant or that did not relate directly to the Vietnam war.

The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

One of the greatest help you can give to yourself is to kill distraction