Reduction quotes:

Send

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. -- Judith Guest
Reduction is at the heart of progress in science. -- Jon Elster
Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health. -- William Rathje
I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions. -- Bob Inglis
I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. -- Placido Domingo
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism, -- Julia Gillard
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. -- Donella Meadows
I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles. -- Ric Keller
Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer. -- Paul Klee
While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars. -- Jim Ryun
I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year. -- Carly Fiorina
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace. -- Frank B. Kellogg
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminating the threat of an immediate interest rate increase, while making clear the need to move toward a long-term solution that serves the best interests of taxpayers and borrowers. -- John Kline
Forensics is eloquence and reduction. -- Gertrude Stein
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. -- John Maeda
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies. -- Herbert Hoover
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. -- Judith Guest
Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension. -- Peter Rogers
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. -- Charles Baudelaire
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. -- Oscar Wilde
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates. -- Thomas Sowell
By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime. -- Moshe Sharett
I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security. -- Cliff Stearns
A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people! -- Marc Bekoff
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.' -- Mitch Daniels
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. -- Thomas Jefferson
The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition. -- Hilaire Belloc
Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits. -- Deepak Chopra
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones. -- Georg Simmel
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed. -- Adolf Hitler
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things. -- Nick Cave
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. -- Thomas Piketty
Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices. -- Carlos Ghosn
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being. -- Daniel Kahneman
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues. -- Jacob Lew
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration. -- Max Weber
We have fluctuations all the time, business cycles, and they come about in various ways, but normally what sets them off is some reduction in the willingness of our population, our businesses, and foreigners to buy. -- Robert Solow
I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem. -- Jared Polis
I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country. -- Thein Sein
The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that's aggressively low in carbohydrates with an abundance of healthful fat, and this is the central theme of 'Grain Brain.' -- David Perlmutter
I've heard all the coaches complaining about the new CBA rules limiting padded practice. I don't like the reduction to just 15 padded practices during the season. When I coached, we always practiced in pads; and three days a week. -- Jimmy Johnson
--
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. -- Martin Heidegger
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments. -- Geoff Mulgan
What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off. -- Alice Dreger
President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. -- William J. Clinton
I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines. -- Douglas Rushkoff
People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated - have a reduction in Type 2 diabetes, or a reduced incidence of Type 2 diabetes, of about fifty percent. The same with Parkinson's, although there it is more related to the caffeine. -- Gregory Stock
Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. -- Cory Booker
In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction. -- Pete Docter
I had a breast reduction. -- Patti Stanger
You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction. -- Nancy Pelosi
Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction. -- David Vitter
I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction. -- Maurice Sendak
Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare -- Tony Juniper
A reduction in emissions matters more than what a country pays for it. -- Ross Garnaut
A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82. -- Ronald Reagan
Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix. -- Dick Taylor
Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy. -- Bill Vaughan
Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint. -- Monica Crowley
Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs. -- John Templeton
The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty. -- James Burnham
I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction. -- Susan George
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent -- Amartya Sen
Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management. -- William Rathje
There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials. -- Winston Churchill
I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction. -- Carrie Fisher
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. -- George Sanders
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. -- John Silber
Until the president produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself. -- Jeff Landry
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God -- Honore de Balzac
Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking. -- Augusten Burroughs
The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF. -- Matt Mullenweg
We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction. -- George W. Bush
The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress. -- Rudy Giuliani
The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work. -- Henry Spencer
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation. -- Attila Kotanyi
Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore. -- Grant Cardone
We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories. -- Steven C. Rockefeller
All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction. -- Maureen Duffy
I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees. -- Junichiro Koizumi
the poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight ... -- Marian Wright Edelman
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments. -- Randal Cremer
I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ... -- Hedi Slimane
There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California. -- James K. Polk
Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class. -- James Callaghan
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction. -- Joe Klein
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power. -- Eric Hoffer
There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government. -- Tony Abbott
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. -- Laurent Fabius
I know of several children and adults (with Asperger's Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses. -- Tony Attwood
The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash -- Heinz Wolff
What we do know, despite the lack of media curiosity, is that Hillary Clinton promises a radical amnesty combined with a radical reduction in immigration enforcement. -- Donald Trump
When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction! -- Kent Conrad
Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it. -- Christina Romer
Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life. -- Jay Sekulow
The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual. -- Werner Heisenberg
We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health. -- Michael Marmot
A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. -- John Robbins
It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates. -- John F. Kennedy
A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive. -- Robert Reich
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates. -- Bill Vaughan
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world. -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Women are more focused on the development of the quality of life in their countries. They are more involved in social and family policies, childcare, and poverty reduction. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation. -- Jimmy Carter
A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it. -- David Foreman
Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction. -- Laurent Lamothe
Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes. -- Tony Abbott
Our task is tough, and our time is limited. Party organizations and governments at all levels must give priority to emission reduction and bring the idea deep into people's hearts. -- Hu Jintao

Send