Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed… — Sharon Lee Copy Share Image
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative… — William James Copy Share Image
The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I never got really into Twitter until more recently when I started doing the Dirt Nasty thing, and created that other character.… — Simon Rex Copy Share Image
While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.'… — Dennis Conner Copy Share Image
Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his… — J. G. A. Pocock Copy Share Image
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential. — Anna Gould Copy Share Image
Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success — Bill Ford Copy Share Image
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
