Essence Quotes
Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.
If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.
He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.
It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.
The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.
When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.
The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.
The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life.
I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.
Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.
Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.
Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
Most Christians when asked what is the essence of the Christian faith will say it is all in the rules to be acceptable by God. That is anti-Christian, but they don't know that.
For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.
In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.
The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.
Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.
Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.
I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.
Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.
The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?
The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.
AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.
To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.
Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.