Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.
Women are like trees, growing slowly over time. So many rings creating layers of maturity as their branches spread and reach out to the sky. Motherhood prunes those branches. Sometimes it prunes them back hard and painfully. But if you let go and tru...
Your children will be like olive shoots around your table." -Psalm 128:3 Children are likened to olive plants. Olive plants, if not pruned and controlled, become a wild nuisance. On the other hand, small olive plants that are nurtured and trained in ...
I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.
The waitress scuttles away, and I make a shooing motion at the old couple who’re still glaring. “Don’t you have something to better to work on?” I hiss. “Like golfing or eating prunes or dying?” The old lady looks shocked. “Okay, sorry,...
Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
You must prune dead or dying wood.
I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so that they would stay strong, and that became a metaphor for his pruning at Apple. Instead of encouraging each group to let product ...
Hagrid: Dry up Dursley, you great prune!
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. So...
Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
