Reducing Quotes

271 quotes by 245 authors

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the… — Paul Auster
If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of… — H. L. Mencken
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan… — Alistair Maclean
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing… — Alexander Lowen
I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page… — Patricia McCormick
nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes — Cassandra Clare
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes… — Daniel J. Siegel
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. — J. Oswald Sanders
[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the… — Tom Wolfe
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what… — Albert Camus
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.… — Naomi Wolf
Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will… — Angela Carter
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?… — Julian Barnes
Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often… — Alain de Botton
If youâ€™re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, youâ€™re reducing significantly the scope… — Chuck Klosterman
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in… — Johan Huizinga
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. — Herbert V. Prochnow
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. — Thomas Carlyle

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