Quotes About Discard

The key word here is "selective." It's neither possible nor desirable for individuals or nations to change completely, and to discard everything of their former identities. The challenge, for nations as for individuals in crisis, is to figure out which parts of their identities are already functioning well and don't need changing, and which parts are no longer working and do need changing.

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

This extraneous jetsam.

Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

The best thing to do with a bad smell is to get rid of it.

He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

Él descarta una colcha por temor a los bichos.

The Tao does not accumulate or increase complexity—it reduces, simplifies, and streamlines. It's not about learning more techniques—it's about discarding the harmful elements.

He felt an enormous responsibility in being the one to declare their worth or lack thereof. What if he threw away something that had been especially meaningful to his grandmother, a family memory that once discarded by him would no longer exist?

To determine the age of eggs, place them in a bowl of water...eggs that float are too old and should be thrown away.

The best endings don't leave us happy. Instead, they produce something richer—a rush of unexpected insight, a fleeting moment of transcendence, the possibility that by discarding what we wanted we've gotten what we need.

when you see the words partially hydrogenated on the side of a box, consider what's inside poisonous and throw it in the trash.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

I am quite a hoarder, so it is important to let go of some stuff.

What people discard could make a nation

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

When you discard your own pettiness, center yourself in integrity, and reach into your soul for your greatness, it is always there.

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

We Americans," he said, "are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they were produced, or what happens to them"—he pointed at his daughter—"what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.