Quotes About Essentials

Buy only what you really need and cannot do without," President Harry Truman once said on TV.

Grace breeds delight in God, and delight breeds meditation. Meditation is a duty wherein consists the essentials of religion, and which nourishes the very life-blood of it.

I travel so much that life has become a matter of honing things down to the barest essentials. Nowadays, I almost never go anywhere with anything more than hand luggage - and a laptop.

Turmeric or cinnamon? Nuts or raisins? The players may change, but the fundamentals of fluffy, fragrant pilaf are always the same.

Girls' handbags have enough to make a survival kit for Antarctica.

The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we'll label "modernism" for lack of anything better.

She reaches into the backpack she uses for a purse

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

I checked my pocketbook to make sure I had the essentials... beeper, tissues, hair spray, flashlight, cuffs, lipstick, gun with bullets, recharged cell phone, recharged stun gun, hairbrush, gum, pepper spray, nail file. Was I a kick-ass bounty hunter, or what?(Three to get deadly)Janet evanovich

I ran through the store gathering together some basic foods. Bread, cheese, Tastykakes, peanut butter, cereal, milk, Tastykakes, eggs, frozen pizza, Tastykakes, orange juice, apples, lunch meat, and Tastykakes.

I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc.

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work.

Caution leads you to stock up on essentials and prepare your family for time in the home together.

The secret to renewal and true confidence is simple: Get back to the basics.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." —Lin Yutang

I had to get back to this place where you just want water, food, and shelter. All the craziness of my life—this Wall Street life I had taken on—would go away, would melt away.

What is the 20% of my belongings that I use 80% of the time? Eliminate the other 80% in clothing, magazines, books, and all else. Be ruthless—you can always repurchase things you can't live without.

How to Say "No" When It Matters Most "The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." —Lin Yutang "Discipline equals freedom." —Jocko Willink (page 412)

Malgastamos la vida con detalles… Simplifica, simplifica… Un hombre es rico en proporción a la cantidad de cosas de las que puede prescindir.

The rule is: The basics are the basics, and you can't beat the basics.

I really love fashion, but I feel like the older I get, the more I am drawn to the basic things in my daily life because everything else is so goofy and crazy.

for I see in Christ not merely the essentials of the supreme romantic type, but all the accidents, the wilfulnesses even, of the romantic temperament also. He was the first person who ever said to people that they should live 'flower-like lives.' He fixed the phrase.

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;