Essence Quotes

1898 Essence quotes by 1317 unique authors

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!! — Abhijeet Sawant
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict. — Max Euwe
The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is. — David Bronstein
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of… — Ruth Bernhard
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges… — Humphry Davy
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place)… — Roland Barthes
The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community. — Bode Miller
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation. — Mahatma Gandhi
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence… — Vladimir Lenin
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism — John Searle
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and… — Ralph Nader
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs
Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth. — Santoka Taneda
Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured… — Beryl Markham
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and… — Adolf Hitler
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence… — Anne Lamott
The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter. — John O'Donohue
I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the essence of good… — Jeff Cooper
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. — Henry Fuseli
Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time… — Swami Vivekananda

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