Essentials Quotes

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

TDF is more essential today than it was when it was first founded in 1968.

Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject.

Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

Lies are essential to humanity.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.