Essentials Quotes

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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best… — Benjamin Franklin Fairless
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. — Virginia Woolf
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer. — Evelyn Underhill
The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. — Joseph LeConte
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on… — Anton Chekhov
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" — Oprah Winfrey
Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these… — Kevin Roberts
You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me. — Katherine Dunham
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour… — Merce Cunningham
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful… — Lincoln Kirstein
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. — Henry Steele Commager
To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality. — Wendy Kaminer
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance… — Marianne Williamson
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. — Katharine Whitehorn
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply… — Flannery O'Connor
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever… — Marc Bloch
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. — Theodore Roosevelt
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To… — Albert Einstein

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