J. K. Rowling

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

English Author

John Drinkwater

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

English Poet

Dan Levy

The fact that I like to buy inessential things to make myself feel better is neither a secret nor something I'm particularly proud of. And I know I'm not alone.

American Comedian

Peter Zumthor

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Swiss Architect

Helmut Jahn

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

German Architect

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Use 'inessential' to describe items lowest in priority that could be skipped or removed without impact.

Prioritization

'Inessential' can be subjective, what's inessential to one might be vital to another.

Subjectivity

Use 'inessential' when suggesting something can be reduced or simplified without loss of function.

Reduction

 to try and see our true selves, or perhaps pass through to another world. Or, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "As the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island