Main Point Quotes

A good life is a main argument.

I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point which was to decide the question. They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves.

I think at times, too many people focus on just little things and not focus on what the whole question and the whole answer is.

Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

Above all, discard the irrelevant.

Cake is not the issue here.

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.

You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.

I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.