Essence Quotes
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.
The essence of information...is not its content but its resonance. This is why feeling or sensing things is so important. To sense the resonance of incoming information co-creates a resonant field.
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 best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.
To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.
Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.
The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its radiance.
I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.
The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.
The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.