My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know. — Don Murray Copy Share Image
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging… — Mike Seabrook Copy Share Image
Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason. Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain… — Donald Calne Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the… — Darius Milhaud Copy Share Image
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
There is nudity, of course striptease is an essential component of burlesque but it's much more complex and intelligent than a display… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“When we take the trouble to look at what is unfolding in front of our eyes, we may recognize instances awakening the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
