Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.
We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.
A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?. . . it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.
All writing is a process of elimination.
The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality.
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and things are sort of festering and things are disgusting in my house and I have to get back to work, whatever project I keep thinking about is the one I end up working on. Sort of a very simple process of elimination.
Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.
The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.
The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.
We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.
