#discard

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. ↗

— Georges Rouault

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

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So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

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If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. ↗

— Tommy Franks

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I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. ↗

— John Pople

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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ↗

— Claude Debussy

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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. ↗

— Stanley Fish

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That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. ↗

— James Gunn

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