Essentials Quotes · Page 49

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

— Aristotle

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

— Boyd K. Packer

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and…

— Francis Crick

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

— Mahatma Gandhi

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality…

— Josiah Royce

When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

— Dwight Edwards

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe…

— Joichi Ito

A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers…

— Carson McCullers

The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then…

— Wilhelm Reich

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It…

— Dee Hock

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one…

— Barney Frank

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor…

— Eric Chaisson

female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential…

— Thomas Jefferson

A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their…

— John Welwood

I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but…

— Leo Buscaglia

Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident…

— Henri Matisse

Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it…

— Rajneesh

Your purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are, to know and love yourself at the deepest level and to…

— Kris Carr

Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and…

— Johan Huizinga

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government…

— Robert Higgs

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches…

— William Lyon Phelps

But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin…

— Wyndham Lewis

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

— John Updike

For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.

— William Goyen

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a…

— Luis Barragan

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the…

— Guy Finley

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

— Bliss Perry

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for…

— Simon Sinek

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

— Nelson Rodrigues

Three grand essentials 2 happiness in this life are something 2 do, something 2 love, and something 2 hope for.

— Anonymous

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

— Nick Cave

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we…

— Ugo Cavallero

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

— Raoul Peck

Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

— Seth Godin