Essence Quotes
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.
The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.
From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.
The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.
There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.
Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.
Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner.
The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.
People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
I can't impersonate someone. That is not what I do. I can only take someone's essence and create a character out of that.
Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.