Essentials Quotes · Page 16

No matter what, I find that surrendering is essential.

— Nikki DeLoach

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

— Ray Blanton

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

— George Earle Buckle

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

— Georg Solti

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

— Rohinton Mistry

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

— Aristophanes

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

— Tom Robbins

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

— Calvin Miller

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

— Susan Faludi

There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

— Lee Iacocca

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults…

— Bertrand Russell

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

— Haile Selassie

We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to…

— Roseanne Barr

I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've…

— Michael Dumontier

Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day,…

— Mary Randolph

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all…

— Margaret Bourke-White

I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping…

— Boris Johnson

Synthetic or inorganic substances do not contain any 'life force'; they are not dynamic. Everything is made of chemicals, but organic substances…

— Robert Tisserand

If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings,…

— Cheryl Richardson

Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential…

— Winston Smith

...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all…

— Henri Bergson

Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell…

— Gale Harold

I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is…

— Scott Barry Kaufman

At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a…

— Val Logsdon Fitch

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

The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the…

— Margaret Mead

The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries…

— Hans Hofmann

Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for…

— Pope Francis

Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

— Ingrid Newkirk

Forgiveness is essential as the ultimate detox

— Doreen Virtue

I put a drop of lavender essential oil on my pillow before I go to sleep.

— Melissa Joan Hart

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

— Rachel Zucker

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

— David Batchelor

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

— Hans Asperger

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

— Benito Mussolini

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

— Willa Gibbs