Essence Quotes

Time is of the essence and I don't have much essence left.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.

Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

Difference is of the essence of humanity.

The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

The very essence of success is practice.

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.

Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.

I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.