Top 368 Reduction Quotes & Sayings

It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.

My main aim is poverty reduction in the state.

The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

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.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure.

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.

Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear arms reduction treaty, the first arms reduction treaty at all in the modern world, and this is quite something.

I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.

You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the whole reduction idea…if my work is reductionist it’s because it doesn’t have the elements that people thought should be there. But it has other elements I like.

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

A reduction in emissions matters more than what a country pays for it.

Detached forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, but no reconciliation takes place. Limited forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is partially restored, though there is a decrease in the emotional intensity of the relationship. Full forgiveness—there is a total cessation of negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is fully restored.

If we continue on the trend we’re on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

I had a breast reduction.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.

The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.

The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.

Reduction of inflexibility means reduction of injuries. That just means being able to move a lot easier and, you know, not looking like Abe Vigoda when you get out of bed in the morning.

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.

The single greatest force for deficit reduction is a growing economy.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.

It was clear to me that the White House's solemn atmosphere would not civilize Trump. But the merciless nepotism with which he conducts politics, in which he places himself and his family above the law, I wouldn't have considered that possible. And on top of that there is this reduction of complex political decisions to 140 characters. When it comes to a U.S. president, I consider the reduction of politics to a tweet to be truly dangerous. Trump is a risk to his country and the entire world.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

More draconian forms of policing and punishment are no guarantee of a reduction in violent crime.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population.

The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on global temperature is quite modest, especially for the first century. The reduction in global mean temperature in the Annex I case relative to the reference in 2100 is 0.13ºC; this compares with a difference of 0.17ºC from the Kyoto Protocol calculated by Wigley. The temperature reduction in the optimal run is essentially the same as the Kyoto runs by the 22nd century.

The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.

If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.