Unnecessary Quotes - Page 2

Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.

Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary.

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.