Superfluous Quotes

Superfluous Quote of the day

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

Eliminate the superfluous.

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.