Essential Quotes

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Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group… — Richard Branson
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. — Abe Fortas
Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization. — Brian Tracy
Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good. — S. Truett Cathy
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. — Annie Besant
The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves. — Julia Cameron
True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and… — James Geary
Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought. — Jon Meacham
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally… — Sogyal Rinpoche
There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president… — Christopher Hitchens
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than… — Robert S. Johnson
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief… — Tom G. Palmer
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened… — Dieter Rams
A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income — Roy Jenkins
From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be… — Wolfgang Pauli
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of… — Unknown Author
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. — Andrea Dworkin
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going… — Catharine MacKinnon
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby… — Jan Tschichold
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as… — Kenneth Burke
It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills. — Louise Hay

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