Quotes About Essentials

Political power seems to corrupt religions, corroding them from within. It may be that as they age, and gain respectability in the social sphere, religions need to be brought back to the essentials of their faith and practice.

The Law of the Vital Few*: In many settings, 80 percent of a given effect is due to just 20 percent of the possible causes.

Put another way: minimalists don't mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

Why did they have so many clothes, anyway? Life was so much easier in India, where a boy needed only a pair of shorts.

Surely the relationship between inconveniences suffered and privileges granted was part of the very essentials of learning how to handle people without an explosion.

Pan, circo y algo que venerar, es todo lo que necesitan.

A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

Semplicità è fare il viaggio di questa vita con solo il bagaglio necessario.

Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes, To keep one from going nude.

I must have, like, four different types of lip moisturizer in my bag!

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

When you can articulate your subject in a few sentences, in terms of action and character, you're ready to begin expanding the elements of structure and story. It may take several pages of free-association writing about your story before you can begin to grasp the essentials and reduce a complex story line to a simple sentence or two. Don't worry about it. Just keep doing it, and you will be able to articulate your story idea clearly and concisely.

In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask, but in others it pares people to the essentials

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Any faithful account of police investigations, in even the most spectacular homicide case would be abysmally dull. I should have thought you'd seen enough of the game to realize that. The files are a plethora of drab details, most of them entirely irrelevant. Your crime novelist gets over all that by writing grandly about routine work and then seleting the essentials. Quite rightly. He'd be the world's worst bore if he did otherwise.

I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

Despite trying to keep luggage to minimum, I do like to have all my cleansers and my hair and nail things to hand.

So Now You're Death: Here's What You'll Need

Farmer would say, Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floors, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have a birthrights.

Non introdurre dentro di sé niente che non sia necessario. Niente veleni o sostanze chimiche, nessun vapore o fumo o alcol, nessun oggetto tagliente, nessun ago che non sia essenziale – droga o tatuaggio – e… nemmeno peni che non siano essenziali.

Because it's everything a person needs to live a decent life. It has a stove for heat. A fridge to keep your food cold and a stove to cook it when you're ready to eat it. It has a bathtub and a shower to get you clean after your chores and a bed to lie down in at the end of the day. And that's all a person really needs. And I think the whole trouble with us is that we think we need so much more.

keep your food cold and a stove to cook it when you're ready to eat it. It has a bathtub and a shower to get you clean after your chores and a bed to lie down in at the end of the day. And that's all a person really needs. And I think the whole trouble with us is that we think we need so much more.