Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy. — Ted Kulongoski Copy Share Image
It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical,… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of personal, professional or even spiritual… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
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