Top 100 Quotes About Unnecessary
#1. I've just had an amusing flashback. All these creatures going in the same direction - they look like the commuters who used to surge back and forth twice a day between home and office, before electronics made it unnecessary.
Arthur C. Clarke
#2. In areas where the Bible has left us free, when we carry out Christian ministry, we should be constantly engaged in cultural adaptation - refraining from certain attitudes or behaviors to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks from the paths of people with culturally framed perceptions.
Timothy Keller
#3. I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
Edward Abbey
#4. My phone just auto-corrected my name to "Jamie unnecessary," instead of Jamie Lynn.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
#5. Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.
Duane Elgin
#6. There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering.
Bertrand Russell
#7. The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.
Benjamin Graham
#8. Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
Seneca.
#9. People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.
David W. Earle
#10. There are things in life which one can confide
in one person only, whom one trusts. It is because
of this that I write to my mother without the knowl-
edge of the others, for whom my secrets are quite
uninteresting, or, rather, . unnecessary.
Anton Chekhov
#11. To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
Agnes Repplier
#12. For me, minimalism is about getting rid of unnecessary clutter (in all areas of life!), organizing what is left, and living in a peaceful, contented state, devoid of the extra stress that too much baggage brings to your life.
Kristen D. Smith
#13. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.
Dieter Rams
#14. The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.
Alan Watts
#15. Insecurity is unnecessary - you will get what you deserve.
Jack Canfield
#16. There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the sheer largesse of the Father.
Michael Reeves
#17. Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.
Vaclav Klaus
#18. We all learn to carry so much unnecessary regret. We drag it around behind ourselves and wear it sewn into the inner lining of our shadow. I think that the heart of every ghost story ever told is awash with the soft faded autumnal color of pure unredeemable regret.
Steve Vernon
#19. Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.
Henry Petroski
#20. Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
Umberto Eco
#21. It is unnecessary to spoil your precious involvements with a person with some word. We cannot name and express every human relationship or feeling, and we confine our involvements by naming them.
M. T. Panchal
#22. I don't believe in revenge. It's unnecessary. I prefer using a very discreet psychological intervention topped of with a short burst of extreme violence!
Jose N. Harris
#23. Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.
Edouard Boubat
#24. Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
Karen Finerman
#25. when knowledge is available, belief is unnecessary. There is no religious belief expressed because wisdom is superior
Amanda Valiant
#27. I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.
Thomas Jefferson
#28. A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?
Niki Lauda
#29. They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.
"You?"
"Great."
They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.
Louise Penny
#30. I am my family's appendix, it's unnecessary appendage. - Aaliya
Rabih Alameddine
#31. It was unnecessary, but she had to say it. She had to know she said it, a charm that would protect him. It had to. Terak, be careful.
Danielle Monsch
#32. Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price
Lee Child
#33. Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
Sheryl Sandberg
#34. Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
Peter Drucker
#35. But pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being
Peter Singer
#36. A busy office is like a food processor - it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there. Each segment is filled with a conference call, a meeting, another meeting, or some other institutionalized unnecessary interruption.
Jason Fried
#37. Truth is dangerous. Its so painful and unnecessary. But if you find the courage to face it - it will turn your world upside down and make you a better man.
M.K. Tasker
M.K. Tasker
#38. It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.
Andrew Lakey
#39. I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary.
Epicurus
#40. Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.
Steve Nash
#41. A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
Marcus Aurelius
#42. To work in the world is hard, to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#44. For years, my life has been flat. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I've never admitted it before. I'm not depressed, I don't think. That's not what I'm saying. Just flat, listless. So much has felt accidental, unnecessary, arbitrary. It's been lacking a dimension. Something seems to be missing.
Iain Reid
#46. It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple ... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
Addison Mizner
#47. The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.
Chris Hedges
#48. He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose.
Frank Herbert
#49. Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
Dick Thornburgh
#50. All that a good government aims at ... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
James F. Cooper
#51. It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.
Solomon Ortiz
#52. Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.
Mahathir Mohamad
#53. Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see ... [it] becomes unnecessary.
Steve Hagen
#54. So get rid of the unnecessary obligations, time-wasting distractions, and useless burdens that stand in your way.
Daniel H. Pink
#56. People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.
Daniel Radcliffe
#57. Appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour
John Wyndham
#58. wasn't about to take any unnecessary
Angie Fox
#59. Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
Bill James
#60. No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
Sebastian Junger
#61. Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.
T.F. Hodge
#62. We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.
Vera Wang
#63. I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying "We don't have to fix anything."
Mitch Hedberg
#64. Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
Dean Koontz
#65. I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
James Lovelock
#66. Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
Yusuf Hamied
#67. By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
Alfred North Whitehead
#68. The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#69. Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them.
Mike Huckabee
#70. The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
Benjamin Franklin
#71. The unnecessary and superfluous volume of pure beauty around here is not the be believed.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#72. My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.
John Schneider
#73. It seems sort of unnecessary to prolong my life but I guess they can't just let me die. I'm sure there would be paperwork.
Kimberly Russell
#74. I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and
unnecessary.
Edith Wharton
#75. In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
John Conyers
#76. The motor-car, in brining us all closer together, by making it easy to have luncheon two counties away, has driven us all further apart, by making it unnecessary for us to know the people in the next bungalow. And so, once again, we have to thank civilization for nothing.
Ronald Knox
#78. In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.
Robert Anton Wilson
#79. It's a huge step forward to realize that the worst thing to happen is never the event, but the event and losing your head. Because then you'll have two problems (one of them unnecessary and post hoc). The
Ryan Holiday
#80. If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.
Ludwig Von Mises
#81. A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.
Helmut Krone
#82. Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.
Jane McGonigal
#83. Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
Jack Kemp
#84. Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.
Robert Farrar Capon
#85. There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.
Hillary Clinton
#86. Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#87. I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
Enya
#88. Make use of all free time at the office and elsewhere for chanting your mantra or reading spiritual books. Avoid indulging in unnecessary gossip and try to talk about spiritual subjects with others.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#89. You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.
Christopher Walken
#90. Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs ... The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
Oscar Wilde
#91. The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
Dennis Kucinich
#92. My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.
John R. Leopold
#93. Mr. Beresford put down the Daily Mail, which he was reading, and applauded with somewhat unnecessary vigour. He was politely requested by his colleague not to be an ass.
Agatha Christie
#94. One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Winston S. Churchill
#95. Your life is not so complicated. God has already written the script, casted the key players. It is when we try to re-write the plot that we encounter unnecessary drama. Accept the role God has chosen you to play. Faith in his direction will assure an Oscar worthy performance!
Carlos Wallace
#96. The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. *
John Berger
#97. I realized that the job of a hero is not to save the galaxy, or rescue princesses, or slay all the dragons. That may be part of it, but in the end, a hero only has one job, and that's to make himself unnecessary.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#98. If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You don't have to go to school.
Gene Simmons
#99. Even systems that do not use menus need to provide some structure: appropriate constraints and forcing functions, natural good mapping, and all the tools of feedforward and feedback. The most effective way of helping people remember is to make it unnecessary.
Donald A. Norman
#100. Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.
Andy Behrman
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