Essence Quotes

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

Mystery is the essence of divinity

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Love is the essence of God.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

Fenway is the essence of baseball

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

The essence of life is in remembering God.

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

If ye love me, keep my commandments." This is the essence of what it means to be a true disciple: those who receive Christ Jesus walk with him.

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love.

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

The essence of the Redemption depends upon learning Kabbalah

To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

The innermost essence of my being...is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.