Reductiveness Quotes & Sayings

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life. — Antoine R. Ivins

Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar. — Maria Shriver

Sometimes he found himself resenting the others' definition of him, the reductiveness and immovability of it: — Hanya Yanagihara

Wi' basket oft shoo walks abroad To some poor lonely elf; To ivery one shoo knaws t' reight way At's poorer nor(2) herself. Shoo niverr speyks o' what shoo gives, Kind, gentle-hearted sowl; I' charity her hands find wark, Shoo's good alike to all. — Frederic William Moorman

Being a parent is amazing. — Angela Kinsey

To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge. — Cassandra Clare

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them. — Bill Bryson

A more fundamental problem with labelling human distress and deviance as mental disorder is that it reduces a complex, important, and distinct part of human life to nothing more than a biological illness or defect, not to be processed or understood, or in some cases even embraced, but to be 'treated' and 'cured' by any means possible - often with drugs that may be doing much more harm than good. This biological reductiveness, along with the stigma that it attracts, shapes the person's interpretation and experience of his distress or deviance, and, ultimately, his relation to himself, to others, and to the world. Moreover, to call out every difference and deviance as mental disorder is also to circumscribe normality and define sanity, not as tranquillity or possibility, which are the products of the wisdom that is being denied, but as conformity, placidity, and a kind of mediocrity. — Neel Burton

Consider this, believer. You have no right to heaven in yourself: your right lies in Christ. If you are pardoned, it is through his blood; if you are justified, it is through his righteousness; if you are sanctified, it is because he is made of God unto you sanctification; if you shall be kept from falling, it will be because you are preserved in Christ Jesus; and if you are perfected at the last, it will be because you are complete in him. Thus Jesus is magnified - for all is in him and by him; thus the inheritance is made certain to us - for it is obtained in him; thus each blessing is the sweeter, and even heaven itself the brighter, because it is Jesus our Beloved "in whom" we have obtained all. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate. — Various

Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence. — Plato

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life. — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

Writing, which used to be my delight, has become an almost forgotten art with me. — Harry Haskell

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? — Robert Browning

Make sure each team has a clearly defined output. — Geir Isene

In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them. — Jane Hamilton

Some are born brilliant, some have brilliance thrust upon them
and others cower in the dark crying, It burns! It burns! — K.A. Laity

I always like to start my morning with a good amount of fruit. I really like pineapple, particularly because of the enzymes that it has. Sometimes I have oatmeal. But if I'm feeling like I really want to be watching my weight more, then I definitely do a protein, like an omelet, scrambled eggs or some smoked salmon. — Cynthia Nixon