The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting. — Titian Copy Share Image
There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world.… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil. — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera." — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A… — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building… — Gary Rydstrom Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image