Essentials Quotes · Page 29

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

— Beryl Bainbridge

We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and…

— Nikki Giovanni

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

— Linda Ronstadt

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

— Joyce Cary

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

— Gianna Beretta Molla

Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.

— Ken Blackwell

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

— Matthew Syed

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace…

— Russell Banks

Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other…

— Bill Crawford

What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity…

— Claire Vaye Watkins

The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to…

— Sun Tzu

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual…

— Daniel Goleman

Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation...…

— Evan Osnos

Obviously what I think Senator [John] Kerry was pointing to, which is absolutely correct, which is the essential part of the strategy…

— Rahm Emanuel

He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made…

— Milan Kundera

That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of…

— Stasi Eldredge

The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful…

— Bruce C. Hafen

The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be…

— Werner Heisenberg

On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to…

— James Madison

Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was…

— Pierre Boulle

The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to…

— William Duncan Silkworth

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

— Thomas McEvilley

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and…

— Kofi Annan

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect…

— Gillian Anderson

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

— Benjamin Rush

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

— Martin O'Malley

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

— Stephen King

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

— Norman Borlaug

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

— George Weinberg

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

— Robert Lanza

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it…

— Tony Buzan

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

— Marthe Bibesco

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to…

— Robert Kiyosaki

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of…

— Anonymous

The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer…

— Mark Tobey

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante