Elimination Game Quotes & Sayings

I think things happen between people for a reason. — Nora Roberts

Most of being young, she had always thought, was playing a game of elimination with an army of different selves until you settled on one, usually by circumstance. But what made her grin, sitting across a starched white tablecloth from a man who seemed to actually listen to her, was the feeling that all those other selves weren't dead. They were still alive - multitudes of them, waiting inside her. — Ted Thompson

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life. — Charles R. Swindoll

For nature then to me was all in all. — William Wordsworth

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter. — Adam Clarke

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Don't mind these shitheads. I had to bring them, it's my turn to be designated driver. They won't kill our game, though, they hang in the kiddie section."
"No worries." Lincoln said.
"What?"
"No worries!" Lincoln wasn't worried. He didn't have any game to kill. — Rainbow Rowell

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering. — Kane Freeman

Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy execution. — Pearl Zhu

All it takes," said Crake, "is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever. — Margaret Atwood

Reducing coordination and transaction costs is at the heart of Lean. It is waste elimination in its most potent form. It allows smaller batches to become efficient. It enables business agility. Reducing coordination and transaction costs is game changing. — David J. Anderson

I don't think you do,' said Father Brown, with simplicity. 'You say this thing was done by spiritual powers. What spiritual powers? You don't think the holy angels took him and hung him on a garden tree, do you? And as for the unholy angels - no, no, no. The men who did this did a wicked thing, but they went no further than their own wickedness; they weren't wicked enough to be dealing with spiritual powers. I know something about Satanism, for my sins; I've been forced to know. I know what it is, what it practically always is. It's proud and it's sly. It likes to be superior; it loves to horrify the innocent with things half understood, to make children's flesh creep. That's why it's so fond of mysteries and initiations and secret societies and all the rest of it. Its eyes are turned inwards, and however grand and grave it may look, it's always hiding a small, mad smile. — G.K. Chesterton

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it. — David Foster Wallace

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class. — Henry Rosovsky