Essential Quotes

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Plans are useless, but planning is essential. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion. — Merce Cunningham
Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose… — Wynton Marsalis
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,… — Will Durant
Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success. — Unknown Author
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children. — Bertrand Russell
From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using… — Lee Iacocca
Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get… — Eric Ries
Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups. — Eric Ries
The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality. — Maria Montessori
Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in… — Maria Montessori
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that… — Maria Montessori
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility… — Paulo Freire
Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the… — Ben Bernanke
The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions… — Harold Innis
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation… — Humphry Davy
I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me… — Sergio Leone
You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the… — Donald Judd
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers. — William Robertson Smith
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality… — Roald Hoffmann
Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the… — Jacque Fresco
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. — Dieter Rams
Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the… — Bill Walsh
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his… — Haile Selassie

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