Extraneous Quotes

52 Extraneous quotes by 47 unique authors

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
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
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
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces. — Carlos Castaneda
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
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product,… — Robert Bringhurst
I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go… — Ross Bleckner
I think that words are often extraneous to what I do. — Howard Hodgkin
I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to… — Stan Getz
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at… — Ralph Cudworth
A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the… — John Brodie
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to… — Primo Levi
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an… — Charlotte Bronte
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,… — Mark Twain
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness. — David Mazzucchelli
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to… — Beryl Markham
Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should… — Garth Stein

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