Eliminating Quotes - Page 9

• Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and everything that is out of our field of view. The shutter slices time, eliminating all moments before and after it opens and closes. Three dimensions are reduced to two. And in some cases color is removed. How can we call these kinds of artifacts unaltered?

  John Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Views, Color

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• My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.

  John R. Leopold

  Safety, Focus, Priorities

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• ...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

  Thomas Merton

  Evil, Overcoming, Triumph

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Self, Natural

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• I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Progress, Would Be

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• Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

  Gerald May

  May, Illuminating

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