Essentials Quotes

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

American leadership is essential.

It is essential that America's word be good.

Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.

Economy is essential to all good art.

I use only essential oils for perfumes.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.