Diane von Furstenberg

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

Belgian Designer

Groucho Marx

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

American Comedian

John C. Maxwell

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

American Clergyman

Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

English Philosopher

Rodney Dangerfield

I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

American Architect

Donald Rumsfeld

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

American Politician

Red Auerbach

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

American Coach

Tom Peters

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

American Businessman

Bill Pullman

I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.

American Actor

Prune is often used when talking about gardening to ensure better plant health or shape.

Gardening Context

Use 'prune' to imply that the action will improve something, not just remove parts.

Improvement Outcome

Prune as a noun refers to the fruit, often used in cooking or as a healthy snack.

Food Terminology

When mentioned as food, prunes are associated with digestive health.

Health Benefits

When used metaphorically, 'prune' suggests making a piece of work clearer by removing excess.

Editing Work

Pruning something can mean focusing on the essential parts by eliminating distractions.

Focus on Essentials

In zoology, 'prune' describes how birds clean and arrange their feathers with their beaks.

Animal Grooming

Pruning is a regular part of many birds' routines, much like combing for humans.

Self-Care Ritual

 schools and a church so rebecca plans on reaching out to them to help address this issue but also residents in north st louis tend to have lower incomes compared to other parts of the metro area rebecca says a lot of people there can't afford to prune and remove old dying trees and if the trees are on private property

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 like pruning I suppose say if you really want to cure an area of trees like this you've got to come and pull them up by the roots or poison them and obviously you don't want to be put poisoning don't want to be putting poisoned or in the world area like this because who knows what other effects it will have so

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 but they help channel out water when it rains, lowering the risk of hydroplaning. Well, if your fingers really are like rain treads, you should be able to predict the optimal shape for them, right? So, what would the predicted wrinkle shapes be? That is, are our prunes actually the right shape

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 is thought to correspond to synaptic pruning, the elimination of unwanted synapses. This is a really important process. It's partly dependent on the environment that the animal or the human is in, and the synapses that are being used are strengthened, and synapses that aren't being used

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 when we need a brief burst of blood vessels the body can do this by releasing stimulators proteins called angiogenic factors that act as natural fertilizer and stimulate new blood vessels to sprout and when those excess vessels are no longer needed the body prunes them back

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 really important developmental process because gray matter contains cell bodies and connections between cells the synapses and this decline in gray matter volume during prefrontal cortex is thought to correspond to synaptic pruning the elimination of unwanted

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 thanks to the brain's continuous efforts to prune itself and remove unused or faulty neural connections. This process is important because our neural pathways serve as a map for everything we do. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging,

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 if they're on a shelf, the U.S. EPA warns against eating food off of them. Though we still occasionally run into issues with synthetic food dyes, our scientific understanding has helped us prune hazardous colors out of our lives.

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 that I was going to carefully clip and prune and shape into some perfect form of a human that might just be perfect enough to warrant them admission to one of the most highly selective colleges.

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 a wealthy prune juice bottler, and consolidated to form the core collection. As an art form it lies somewhere between still-life painting and plumbing.

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