Quotes About Main idea

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

One of the Georges, said Psmith, I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory. However, there you are. I've given you the main idea of the thing; and a German doctor says that early rising causes insanity.

Each parable contains one main idea. Once we have discovered it, it should govern our interpretation and application of the parable.