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Quotes About Discard

good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.
~ J.R. Ward
Life is like a fruit basket. You can eat some of it or wast it and throw some of it out. Only you can chose on wat to do with that fruit basket.
~ Takaya Natsuki
An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.
~ Terri Guillemets
The Ideal This is where I came from. I passed this way. This should not be shameful Or hard to say. A self is a self. It is not a screen. A person should respect What he has been. This is my past Which I shall not discard. This is the ideal. This is hard.
~ James Fenton
Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.
~ Norman Davies
He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
~ Stanley Fish
An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.
~ Terri Guillemets
For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.
~ Antoni Porowski
I have always had a long term view on records as I want them to be books and not magazines and newspapers that you discard very quickly.
~ Chris de Burgh
One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn't, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.
~ Nicole Krauss
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
~ Ang Lee
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
~ Oscar Wilde
Food in the trash is like the tossed-and-found.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
How do you sort the treasure from the trash? When does something move from sentimental to disposable? And if you think you are ready to part with it, are you really? If you throw it away today, will you regret it tomorrow? Or will it be something you never think about again?
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
But maybe it takes a slightly unhinged person to reverse our decades of mindless consumption. Who else would dare suggest, "The basic rule for papers: Discard everything"? (Are they not required to keep tax records in Japan?) Who else would name a section of her book "Photos: Cherish who you are now"? Imagine Southwest Airlines changing their slogan from "Wanna get away?" to "What are you running from?
~ Heather Havrilesky
When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don't need ironing.
~ Janet Evanovich
I had been so focused on what to discard, on attacking the unwanted obstacles around me, that I had forgotten to cherish the things that I loved, the things I wanted to keep.
~ Marie Kondo
Don't be afraid to discard work you know isn't up to standard. Don't save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.
~ David Eddings
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
~ Tim Roth
Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The world is a giant ashtray we put things into.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
did you think of the impact your actions would have on the women of the city? That men would punish their wives harshly or even discard them for the smallest refractions, saying King Ram did so. Then why shouldn't I?
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.
~ Paul Sabatier