Inessential Quotes

17 quotes by 14 authors

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. — Walter Benjamin
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way… — Piero Ferrucci
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things,… — Pope John Paul II
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations… — David Riesman
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. — Oliver Sacks
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even… — John Drinkwater
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. — Peter Zumthor
There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable… — Tom Robbins
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. — Helmut Jahn
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. — Tom Robbins
Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none… — Tom Robbins
it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or… — Sharon Salzberg
I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals,… — Laini Taylor
The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it… — Walpola Rahula

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