Essentials Quotes

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the person beforehand. The web makes this very easy.

The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.

To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs to be constantly in touch with the medium.

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

Few things are as essential as education.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.