Extraneous Quotes

52 quotes by 47 authors

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. — Gyorgy Kepes
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such… — Edward Hoagland
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. — Okakura Kakuzo
For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes… — Martin Luther
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves… — Sogyal Rinpoche
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the… — William Albert Allard
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the… — Thomas Jefferson
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely… — Antonio Gramsci
Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the… — Agatha Christie
I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at… — Adrienne Rich
Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others,… — Abd-ru-shin
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as… — Henry David Thoreau
We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we… — Graham Hill
What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course,… — Roger Angell
It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him… — Michel de Montaigne
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties… — Samuel Adams
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous… — Simone Weil
The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be… — Edith Stein

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