Elimination Quotes

• The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.

  

  Alfred Sisley
  • Simple
  • Road
  • Spectator

• All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Management

• The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Process
  • Elimination
  • Modicum

• Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Percent

• The more waste humans accumulate, the more they must eat to stop the elimination.

  

  Arnold Ehret
  • Eat
  • Waste
  • Elimination

• The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Emotions
  • Elimination
  • Castration

• I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Consolidate

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

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Question
  • Government
  • Lessons Of October

• We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

  

  Norman Myers
  • Humans
  • Holocaust
  • Planets

• The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.

  

  Mike McGavick
  • Company
  • Individual
  • Unnecessary

• Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Step
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Elimination

• How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Faith
  • Focus
  • Christian

• Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Believe
  • Accomplish
  • Elimination

• The historical evidence clearly shows that Lajos Polgar was a leading member of a fascist movement which sought the elimination of Hungarian Jewry.

  

  Efraim Zuroff
  • Evidence
  • Leading
  • Elimination

• We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of HIV from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Political
  • Child
  • Transmission

• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Chinese
  • Novel
  • Beloved