Pamela Meyer

In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

American Author

Mahatma Gandhi

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

Indian Leader

Wilbur Ross

One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a kind of loser mentality. And when you ask them what's wrong with the business, they'll point to extraneous forces.

American Businessman

Rick Riordan

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.

William Albert Allard

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

Photographer

Yves Behar

The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.

Swiss Designer

Joshua Bell

When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.

American Musician

Peter Serafinowicz

Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.

English Actor

Haley Joel Osment

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

American Actor

Howard Hodgkin

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

British Artist

Use 'extraneous' to dismiss facts or details that don't contribute to the main point.

Discard the Unnecessary

Highlight how certain elements are not connected to the subject at hand with 'extraneous'.

Focus on Relevance

'Extraneous' implies simplifying a topic by removing non-essential parts.

Simplify Complexities

Point out that something originates from outside a particular system or place with 'extraneous'.

Identify External Origin

Signify that something does not belong to a specific category or environment using 'extraneous'.

Indicator of Non-belonging

'Extraneous' can be applied to things that are present by chance rather than intention.

Emphasize Incidental Nature

Use 'extraneous' for components that don't make up the core part of something.

Non-core Elements

 Now, it's the job of all therapists to help people edit, but what's interesting about my specific role as Dear Therapist is that when I edit, I'm not just editing for one person. I'm trying to teach a whole group of readers how to edit, using one letter each week as the example. So I'm thinking about things like, "What material is extraneous?"

How changing your story...

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Ross Lovegrove: The...

 they tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers, what I call web thinkers. Men tend to -- and these are averages -- tend to get rid of what they regard as extraneous,

Why we love, why we...

 It also gets me excited about this big product that I'm putting together, so I'm more willing to be motivated to be engaged. So let me recap. I have talked about four techniques for mitigating the problem of choice overload -- cut -- get rid of the extraneous alternatives;

Sheena Iyengar: How to...

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The Secret Life of...

 Three main approaches. First of all, you have to edit ruthlessly. We've got to clear the arteries of our lives. And that shirt that I hadn't worn in years? It's time for me to let it go. We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives,

Less stuff, more...

 I realize that in a way we're all victims of a certain kind of tyranny of the triumph of modernism whereby form and function in an object have to follow one another, or are deemed to do so. And the extraneous ornament is seen as really,

Luke Syson: How I...

 It doesn't have the same physical limitations, in that it's not tethered to a lab bench with extraneous cords, large vats of chemicals or computer monitors. It allows us to de-black box genome sequencing technology development

Why genetic research...

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 we just deprioritize registering plants, simply filtering out information that we view as extraneous. But stop to think about that. Are plants really extra? Are they just nature's backdrop?