Discard Quotes
On letting go, choice, and refining what stays.
These discard quotes show two sides of the word, one refusing to abandon a personal style while another describes a writer selecting and discarding tools before finding the right fit. See our Able quotes for related themes.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields,...
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When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record would have to discard a...
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than...
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.
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
There is something about a theatre room that is really like a laboratory for trying things and failing, because you have time to do that, and you can explore something deeply and discard it if it's not working.
Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance...
