Essential Quotes

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The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards.… — Peter York
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential… — Jill Tweedie
The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing.… — Chris Cannon
It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such… — Lee R. Raymond
It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and… — Noah Taylor
There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3,… — Confucius
Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving… — Peter Drucker
It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good… — Jo Coudert
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. — Louise Hart
Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that… — Peter Shepherd
The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential… — B. H. Liddell Hart
An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others. — Sue Thoele
The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing. — James Stalker
Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone. — Tracy Chapman
Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of… — Frederick Lenz
The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus. — Frederick Lenz
Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic. — Frederick Lenz
Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature. — Damon Lindelof
When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar. — Saint Augustine
The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is… — Walter Lippmann
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well… — Havelock Ellis
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it… — Frederick Douglass
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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