Essential Quotes

2422 Essential quotes by 1671 unique authors

It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures.… — Bill Brandt
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,… — Edward Weston
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master — Bent Larsen
Water for me is so essential, like swimming. — Nastassja Kinski
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera." — Margaret Bourke-White
Power is in nature the essential measure of right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all… — Garry Kasparov
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills. — Unknown Author
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise… — Robin Winks
Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our… — Ken Robinson
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension. — Unknown Author
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that… — Andrei Sakharov
You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living. — Boyd K. Packer
I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that would immediately allow you to master the ability to be guided by the… — Richard G. Scott
The path to eternal life is not on a plateau. Rather, it is an incline, ever onward and upward. Hence, ever-increasing spiritual understanding and energy… — Keith K. Hilbig
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but… — John Dewey
There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a… — Geoffrey Nunberg
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process — Joseph A. Schumpeter
This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels.… — Ludwig von Mises
Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments. — Francis Hutcheson
What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that… — Jeremy Rifkin
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system… — John Holdren
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no… — Eleanor Roosevelt
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a… — Jane Addams

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