Essence Quotes · Page 24

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

— Giorgio Armani

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

— William James

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

— Mary Grandpre

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

— Plato

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

— Thomas Aquinas

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

— Charles Krauthammer

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

— George Sand

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

— Bob Hope

When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real…

— Alan Keyes

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.

— Al Ries

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding)…

— Pema Chodron

Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development…

— Kofi Annan

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“If we search into the innermost part of our self, we come in the end to an utter void where nothing from…

— Paul Brunton

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you…

— Dalai Lama

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general…

— George Boole

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly…

— Alain de Botton

During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth…

— Martin Rees

I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it…

— Michael Hersch

Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love.…

— Warren Farrell

[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence…

— Thomas Wolfe

“To Graduate from the "School of Life" you need to have met the following criteria: Found your life purpose, know how the…

— Marina G. Roussou

In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of…

— Jim Parsons

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or…

— Anonymous

The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,…

— Michael Chekhov

I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I…

— Cary Elwes

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical…

— Andrew Bernstein

The best attitude to receive the Pope's teachings is to understand that he is a religious leader and the essence of his…

— Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

— Joseph Joubert

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

— Andy Serkis

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

— Christopher Hitchens

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

— Oscar Wilde

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

— Igor Stravinsky

“Do you feel it? The sense of being watched? I do.”

— Mandi Lynn

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

— Ridley Scott

In the essence of truth lies deceit. Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

— Dejan Stojanovic