Extraneous Quotes
52 Extraneous quotes by 47 unique authors
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Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.
— Gyorgy Kepes
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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
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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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
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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
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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.
— James Jeans
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So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of…
— August Wilson
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Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form.…
— Dick Wolf
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