Essentials Quotes · Page 122

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential…

— Ellen Bass

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

— Claire Danes

People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions.…

— Ray Dalio

Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not…

— Penelope Lively

To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs…

— Robert A. Lovett

If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all…

— Alfred Rosenberg

Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of…

— Anne Lamott

It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises…

— Abe Ajay

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

— Angela Davis

It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become…

— Toyohiko Kagawa

“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the…

— Lesslie Newbigin

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

— Walter Bagehot

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the…

— Don Kardong

[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates…

— James Madison

We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of…

— C. D. Darlington

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.…

— William Matthews

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore…

— Piet Mondrian

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his…

— J. Paul Getty

Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of…

— Alan Watts

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so…

— Tony Campolo

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming…

— Anonymous

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art…

— Travis Nichols

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love…

— Reynolds Price

The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the…

— Hans von Seeckt