let the meme wars continue.........

 

more fun here

adding by subtracting........................

 

Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny.

The courage isn't in taking on more, it's in cutting off everything that doesn't feed your goal.

Focus requires subtraction.

-Farnum Street, from this episode

Adding by.............................

 

......................................subtracting.

The new math..................................

Sometimes, the best addition to our lives is actually subtraction.

If only...............................

      Walter Bagehot's father showed more confidence in his son that Walter did in himself.  In preparation for joining the family bank, the refugee from the law lived in Langport to make a study of double-entry bookkeeping.  He admitted that the theory of accounting "is agreeable and pretty, but the practice perhaps as horrible as anything ever was."  The student who had kept up with the pyrotechnical intellect of Augustus De Morgan at University College could not seem to add or subtract.  "If only," Bagehot playfully moaned to a school friend, "my relations would admit that sums are matters opinion."

-James Grant, Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

Adding and subtracting....................

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

-Jeremy Bentham

Subtraction................................

"In this age of information abundance and overload, those who get ahead will be the folks who figure out what to leave out, so they can concentrate on what's really important to them."

-Austin Kleon,  Steal Like An Artist:  10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

True than ever..................................

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” 
-Mark Twain

image and more thoughts on unlearning here

More is not always more.......................

"Adding one more is just fine, until adding one more ruins everything."
-Seth Godin, as excerpted from here