Wastebasket Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
• Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. — Erma Bombeck
• Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions. — Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
• When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded,… — Elbert Hubbard
• A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in… — William Stafford
• Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner
• The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. — Albert Einstein
• If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket. — Karl Lagerfeld
• The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener
• I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
• You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway
• I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. — Imogen Cunningham

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