Essentials Quotes

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.

The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

As our understanding of obedience deepens, we recognize the essential role of agency.

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage.

Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, … they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.

Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.