Nick Petrie

I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really hard to avoid them, because they don't help me become a better writer. They subtract hours from my day. And a writer's main currency is time. Time to daydream, time to walk and think, time to sit and do the work.

American Writer

Mark Wahlberg

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.

American Actor

Caroline Knapp

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.

Federica Montseny

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

Spanish Activist

Benjamin Franklin

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

American Politician

Amitava Kumar

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

Indian Writer

Josef Albers

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

German Artist

Huston Smith

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

American Theologian

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Russian Author

Petrarch

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Italian Poet

Used mainly for describing actions in basic math calculations.

Math Operations

Can describe reducing anything in quantity, not just numerical values.

Beyond Numbers

Subtracting a larger number from a smaller one gives a negative result.

Negative Result

Often used in finance to explain calculating profits by removing costs.

Financial Context

Applies to physically removing parts from a whole, resulting in a smaller size.

Reducing Sizes

Can be used metaphorically to describe removing non-physical items, like rights or privileges.

Abstract Concepts

 With that scare, I got busy changing my diet radically, adding and subtracting things most of you would find almost assuredly shocking. I did this and lost 40 pounds, weirdly while exercising less. I, as you can see, I guess I'm not overweight anymore. More importantly, I don't have insulin resistance.

Peter Attia: What if...

 which shows a patch of the universe where the expansions have subtracted out. But you see, as time goes on in gigayears at the bottom, you will see structures evolve as gravity feeds on small, dense irregularities, and structures develop. And we'll end up after 13 billion years

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 seemed to pick up maths at the age of six months these children have been learning maths for three years at the age four or five they'll start playing with the numbers not necessarily adding them together subtracting them it's more just being able to identify one through

Dog Does Maths PIPE...

 So one way to reconstruct that is to compare the prediction -- which is only based on your movement commands -- with the reality. Any discrepancy should hopefully be external. So as I go around the world, I'm making predictions of what I should get, subtracting them off.

Daniel Wolpert: The real...

 about the universe at large scales, such as, how does gravity work? might be answered by studying these systems. So that was very big. The second things is very hot. Okay, if I take an image of a galaxy cluster, and I subtract away all of the starlight,

What we can learn from...

Henry Lin: What we can...

 to add a new habit or subtract a habit -- like watching the news -- from your life. There's a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable.

Try something new for 30...

 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit like watching the news from your life there's a few things that I learned while doing these 30-day challenges the first was instead of the months flying

 I want to summarize with an equation. Take your science, subtract your bullet points and your jargon, divide by relevance, meaning share what's relevant to the audience, and multiply it by the passion that you have for

Melissa Marshall: Talk...

 instead, with your eyes open. And sit up! Laws of sines and cosines? c squared equals a squared plus b squared, subtract