Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later.
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to.
You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.
We obtain things when we no longer want them.
When in doubt, throw it out.
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
When you have rubbish stuff coming your way, you have to let go.
If you acquire things, you have to let them go.
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.
Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.
You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.
Kings treat men like oranges. They go for the juice, and once they have sucked them dry, they throw them aside.
I don't just throw out microwave records.
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.
I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.
Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.
You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
