Top 68 Non Essentials Quotes
#1. When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.
Dwight Edwards
#2. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
#3. The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.
James Allen
#4. A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.
Garry Fitchett
#5. I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?
Rick Warren
#6. Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Dieter Rams
#7. In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
Rupertus Meldenius
#8. Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?
Edna Woolman Chase
#9. The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
Adolf Hitler
#10. It is always my policy to give in on non-essentials. It is only on essentials where I feel that the Will of God is at stake that I am adamant.
Gordon Lindsay
#11. Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Oswald Chambers
#12. The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson
#13. Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#14. A healthy workforce is essential to grow our state and compete in the global marketplace. These actions are important to improve the health security of Iowans by making healthcare more affordable and accessible.
Tom Vilsack
#15. In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
Philipp Melanchthon
#16. Surely the relationship between inconveniences suffered and privileges granted was part of the very essentials of learning how to handle people without an explosion.
Isaac Asimov
#17. We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
J. Boone
#18. For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#20. Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.
Dan Quayle
#21. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.
George Leonard
#22. MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.
Douglas Coupland
#23. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
Ada Lovelace
#24. The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
Agnes Repplier
#25. Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.
Sissela Bok
#27. The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
H.L. Mencken
#28. It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
Steve Martin
#30. Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.
Matthew Syed
#31. The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
Kenneth Tynan
#32. Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.
Henry Hazlitt
#33. Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back on trivial distractions, both material and non-material, and focusing on the essentials - whatever those may be for each of our unique lives.
Duane Elgin
#34. The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
Woodrow Wilson
#35. When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.
Will Rogers
#36. By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.
Paul A. Baran
#37. That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.
Elvin Jones
#38. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.
Albert Einstein
#39. I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.
Catherine Stock
#40. The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness ... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.
Eckhart Tolle
#41. A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
Rene Dubos
#42. American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
Wallace Stegner
#43. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.
George MacDonald
#44. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.
Watchman Nee
#45. A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.
Peter Dicken
#46. I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.
W. H. Auden
#47. Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.
Khaled Abou El Fadl
#48. In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
Horatio Greenough
#49. The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.
Earle Birney
#50. The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
Phillips Brooks
#51. In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.
Charles Edward Merriam
#52. The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.
Harold B. Lee
#53. I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.
May Sarton
#54. And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
Richard Avedon
#55. I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.
Kathleen Norris
#56. Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.
Max De Pree
#57. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep
#58. The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
Erwin Schrodinger
#60. Don't be carried away by the current of the situation. Focus on the essentials, take action on the best alternative are the ways of shifting from reactive to proactive mindset.
Amit Ray
#61. Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want
John Whitmore
#62. Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being ...
J. G. A. Pocock
#64. Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
J.D. Greear
#65. The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
Jamie L. Harding
#66. The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
Edward Albee
#67. A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.
Ayn Rand
#68. In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.
Ross Parmenter
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