#sift

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#periodical #sift #stamp #use #work

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#both #curse #everything #fictional #find

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? ↗

— Tillie Olsen

#estimate #remember #sift #total #weigh

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#effective #every #inch #matter #paint

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#available #become #data #full-time #full-time job

There are so many negative people in this world, so replacing the crap with positive quotes steers our minds to success! ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#sifting-through-the-crap #inspirational

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#being #darkness #entire #entire life #find

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. ↗

— Arlene Francis

#big #friends #our #pass #sieve

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#community #indispensable #out #poor #rich