Quotes About Subtraction

Synergy is addition and multiplication. Ethnicity is subtraction and division.

You, who chafed at the collective we created, who only wanted to subtract yourself, always, from the equation, throwing it off-balance.

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

The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.

My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.

My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

La mia operazione è stata il più delle volte una sottrazione di peso; ho cercato di togliere peso ora alle figure umane, ora ai corpi celesti, ora alle città; soprattutto ho cercato di togliere peso alla struttura del racconto e al linguaggio.

arithmetic.

If there are six apples on a table and you take away four of them, how many do you have?" Mr. Cooper asked. Andrea was waving her hand in the air like she needed to be rescued from a desert island. "Two apples!" she said. "Because six minus four is two." Then she made her smiley smile again. "No," said Mr. Cooper. "If there are six apples on a table and you take away four of them, you have four of them, of course. You just took four of them away!

1. Andrea has 10 crayons, but, nah-nah-nah boo-boo, A.J. took 5 of them! How many does Andrea have now?

Practice mental subtraction to remind yourself of the GAINS in your life. Create a GAIN Tiny Habit Recipe for getting out of the GAP, such as the five-minute rule the women's soccer coach used.

Our days flowed around well-charted, often traveled courses, and yet, the underlying sense of falling out of time, out of the trajectory of one's life, not by choice, but by subtraction, was frequent and disquieting. Then I grieved for him, for the lost and previous Paul. He grieved for that man too. Both our griefs were mainly private, internal, unuttered. Return was impossible, and there was only one direction open ; and so we kept our compass pointed forward. [p. 286]

I use to count the days with you, but now I just subtract them.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

The writing of autobiography or memoir is comparable to the effect of time on ruins: it works by means of subtraction and selection.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.