Top 88 Quotes About Incidental
#1. When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
Maria Montessori
#2. Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it
Henry Mintzberg
#3. For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard usually found paranoia uninteresting, insofar as it swept away the incidental, which was the real grist of history.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#4. I want you to leave your incidental Dick, and this awful hole, and come to live with me, and die with me, and everything with me.
Vladimir Nabokov
#5. It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#6. I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if you're a pro, and you're a reporter, you do it. Whether you agree with the guy or not is just quite incidental. It doesn't count at all, really.
Liz Trotta
#7. Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.
Oscar W. Firkins
#8. Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
Nachman Of Breslov
#9. I suppose, all told, I've done more good than evil in my life, but that's incidental, a product of happenstance and the bizarre caprices of the world.
David Brin
#10. The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
H.G.Wells
#11. Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.
Emilio Pucci
#12. Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Benjamin Disraeli
#13. I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.
David Bowie
#14. What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#15. True coolness is the incidental by-product of higher pursuits.
J.K. Rowling
#16. In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.
Ludwig Von Mises
#17. They've also sent some incidental things - jewelry for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals. My men are processing the lot right now.
Frank Herbert
#18. How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.
Alfie Kohn
#19. I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.
Shaquille O'Neal
#20. I've never felt a connection like this with anyone else ... I don't even know how to explain it. I feel like I already knew you before I met you, and the first time I saw you, the first time I talked to you, was incidental, because the connection was already there
.
M. Molly Backes
#21. The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#22. The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
George Santayana
#23. Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.
Stephen Jay Gould
#24. I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#25. A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
Whittaker Chambers
#26. After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.
Paul Wardingham
#27. Metaphor ... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.
Laura Riding
#28. The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.
Shaun Tan
#29. Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.
Tom Verlaine
#30. Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.
Alain De Botton
#31. Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.
Patrick Kavanagh
#32. There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.
Sax Rohmer
#33. He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed
away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons away and reorganized the good bits on his plate. Those pieces were translated into words and catchy phrases and assembled like a new life.
Jeffry R. Halverson
#34. Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Jodie Foster
#36. My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#39. Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless
and helpless
mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#40. A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.
Jonathan Lethem
#41. What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.
Rachel Zoe
#42. We hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into the land of Faerie; to Middle-earth, Narnia, or Summerland; to the kingdom east of the sun and west of the moon. This longing isn't incidental.
Sarah Arthur
#43. Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#44. I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
Ashwin Sanghi
#45. The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.
Teri Hatcher
#46. A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
Pope Benedict XVI
#47. The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#48. As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
William Baziotes
#49. Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.
William James
#50. Government itself, which is the most unnatural and necessary of social mechanisms, has usually required the support of piety and the priest, as clever heretics like Napoleon and Mussolini soon discovered; and hence a tendency to theocracy is incidental to all constitutions.
Will Durant
#51. Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.
Donald A. Barclay
#52. The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
Herbert Spencer
#53. The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
Boyd K. Packer
#54. Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
Anton Chekhov
#55. With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.
John Henry Holland
#56. The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
Willa Cather
#58. Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.
Luigi Cornaro
#59. Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#61. What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.
Luke Davies
#62. History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#63. Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental.
Chad Kultgen
#64. All these jobs that seemed incidental and almost playful, on the borders of my real life, were going to move front and center.
Alice Munro
#66. The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.
Stephen Metcalf
#67. Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
Haruki Murakami
#68. Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
Ashwin Sanghi
#69. An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.
Richard Russo
#70. I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.
Roger Corman
#71. [U]sefulness is happiness, and ... all other things are but incidental.
Lydia M. Child
#72. Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.
Shaun Tan
#73. Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed'
Ann Coulter
#74. It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.
Eve Ensler
#75. The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
C.L.R. James
#76. Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
Peace Pilgrim
#78. Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#79. What is a shadow? It is the self without a face or a name, all outline and no feature, the self on the verge of being erased. It is the incidental child of matter and light. Look how it spreads itself on the ground, weary but weightless, unable to leave a trace.
Conchitina Cruz
#80. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
Edward Sapir
#81. His mustache made two curved lines around the sides of his mouth like parentheses, as if everything he might say would be very quiet, and incidental.
Barbara Kingsolver
#82. I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
Herb Kelleher
#83. He has his father's distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental.
John Connolly
#84. I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
Karen Lord
#85. Money is the outcome of my work and is incidental.
Dilip Shanghvi
#86. Marriage is not an incidental human construction but a creational reality. Any sexual ethic constructed without a clear connection to a theology of marriage is destined to be deficient.
Stanton L. Jones
#87. Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.
Philip Roth
#88. I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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