Essential Quotes

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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity. — Eugene Ionesco
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension… — Edward Albee
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss… — Wangari Maathai
UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in… — Ewan McGregor
We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from… — Landon Pearson
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be… — Seth Klarman
I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them. — Frances Power Cobbe
It's very encouraging to see the structural changes that the RNC has made this past year in engaging communities on the ground. Recognizing that the… — S. E. Cupp
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story… — Orson Scott Card
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman
To simplify complications is the first essential of success. — George Earle Buckle
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the… — Louis L'Amour
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the… — Hermann Weyl
We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to live the law… — Bruce R. McConkie
Essential to receiving divine forgiveness are personal, individual recognition and acceptance of our Father's mercy, made available to us by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus… — Ronald E. Poelman
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or… — George Bernard Shaw
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. — Vince Lombardi
Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face. — Steve McCurry
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I… — Robert Mapplethorpe
A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs,… — Mary Ellen Mark
As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment,… — Margaret Bourke-White
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and… — Ruth Bernhard

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