Throwing Away Quotes - Page 2

• Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and changing things that you've written - which is the second thing you have to do. A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet. The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

  Josh Lieb

  Mean, Writing, Thinking

  "Wanna write for Latenight? Get tips from a 'Tonight Show' producer". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. April 05, 2015.

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• The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Thinking, Looks

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• I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.

  John F. Kerry

  War, America, Want

  "CNN Daybreak", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

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• If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

  Plato

  Army, Fighting, Cities

  Plato (2016). “Symposium”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar"

  Zicheng Hong

  Home, Doors, Taoism

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• I am not throwing away my shot.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Shots, Throwing

  "Song: "My Shot" ("Hamilton")". 2015.

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• We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

  Patricia Arquette

  Violent Acts, Dna, Intimate

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I find beauty almost everywhere. Now more and more I find almost everything beautiful. That is why I have great difficulty in throwing away things because I think they are quite beautiful. Even the garbage, but I have to throw that away!

  Laura Huxley

  Beautiful, Thinking, Garbage

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

  Arthur Jensen

  Individual Differences, Groups, Fever

  Arthur Robert Jensen (1980). “Bias in Mental Testing”

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• For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.

  Twiggy

  Nice, Mean, Years

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• I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Mean, Drawing, Trying

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Running, Men, Risk

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• Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

  Rita Rudner

  Mother, Book, Men

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• I hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that, when a woman decides to hold off on gunning for a promotion because she wants to have a baby, other women whisper that 'she's throwing away her potential.' That is when we're not supporting our own. Who are we to put such a limited definition on success?

  Zosia Mamet

  Running, Country, Baby

  "Zosia Mamet on Why She Won't Lean In, Thanks". www.glamour.com. May 15, 2014.

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• New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, New York, Past

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.

  Niecy Nash

  Children, Memories, Worry

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• It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.

  Carol Shields

  Sleep, Breathing, Knowing

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• Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mean, Understanding, Throwing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

  Annie Besant

  Mean, Light, Self

  Annie Besant (1894). “The Building of the Kosmos and Other Lectures”

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• It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

  Jenny Han

  Like You, Throwing, Hard

  Jenny Han (2009). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

  Bob Packwood

  Genius, Republican, Advantage

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• With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.

  Paul Ryan

  President, Politics, Republican

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I have no friends and I never leave my house. You just have to make a choice to just refuse to be involved with things that could get you in trouble. It's easy when you feel upset or depressed about something to want to go to a club and want to drink, but instead I just force myself to sit and feel it and deal with it, and try to grow from it, because I don't want to go down that path. I'm one of the most isolated people in existence right now, but it's worth it because if I wasn't making that decision I would be throwing away my career.

  Megan Fox

  Careers, People, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

  Hugh Gaitskell

  Education, School, Tradition

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• This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Father, Artist, Past

  Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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