Essentials famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
-- A. O. Scott -
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
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 -
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
-- Adam Gopnik -
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
-- Adrienne Rich -
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.
-- Al Gore -
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
-- Albert Camus -
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
-- Albert Camus -
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
-- Albert Camus -
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
-- Albert Camus -
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
-- Albert Einstein -
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
-- Alberto Manguel -
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.
-- Alex Toth -
There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to the formation, direction, or support of the NATIONAL FORCES.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.
-- Alexander Shulgin -
Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!
-- Alfred Molina -
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil society, who are an essential part of realizing social and people-centred sustainable development.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.
-- Alice Miller -
It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
-- Alice Walker -
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
-- Allen Klein -
We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings.
-- Allen Steck -
An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
-- Alphonse Karr -
There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.
-- Amjad Ali Khan -
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.
-- Amy Dickinson -
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 the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.
-- Andrei Sakharov -
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development
-- Andrew Cuomo -
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
-- Angela Davis -
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
They are an essential tool to give new life to what you already have in your wardrobe. Accessories are like vitamins to fashion: you should use them liberally as such.
-- Anna Dello Russo -
A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.
-- Anna Eshoo -
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
-- Anne Lamott -
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
-- Anne Lamott -
Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.
-- Anne Parillaud -
Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process does not change the essential content of their work in art, which can only be their life.
-- Anne Truitt -
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
-- Annie Lennox -
World peace is the most essential outer realization of our time.
-- Anodea Judith -
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
-- Anthony Burgess -
The essential is invisible to the eyes.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
-- Anton Chekhov -
I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
-- Antonin Artaud -
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.
-- Antonin Scalia -
Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.
-- Ariana Franklin -
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
-- Aristophanes -
It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.
-- Armin van Buuren -
Networking is an essential part of building wealth.
-- Armstrong Williams -
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
-- Arnold Bennett -
It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
-- Arthur Henderson -
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more than we can prove, or we have to use vague and general terms which hide the essential point, instead of bringing it out. The history of electrical theories furnishes a good example.
-- Arthur Schuster -
...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously true. He manifested the glory of God to us, but he added nought to God... Christ's goodness and rightousness reached unto His saints in the earth but God was high above and beyond it all....
-- Arthur W. Pink -
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.
-- Asa Gray -
Mascara is my daily essential. I pile it on top and bottom lashes during the day. If I'm going out, I'll add the individual Eylure lashes at the outer corners for more drama.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
-- August Krogh -
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
-- Avicenna -
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.
-- Ayn Rand -
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...
-- Ayn Rand -
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
-- Barbara Sher -
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
-- Barney Frank -
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
-- Barry Goldwater -
To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.
-- Bell Hooks -
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 game.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
-- Ben Bernanke -
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
-- Benedetto Croce -
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master
-- Bent Larsen -
The essential thing is to run period! And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.
-- Bernd Heinrich -
For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.
-- Bernd Heinrich -
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next
-- Bertrand Russell -
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.
-- Bertrand Russell -
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.
-- Beryl Bainbridge -
An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!
-- Beth Moore -
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
-- Bill Brandt -
The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.
-- Bill Buford -
Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.
-- Billy Graham -
In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
-- Booker T. Washington -
Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing.
-- Brad Goreski -
Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.
-- Brandon Bays -
The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.
-- Brassai -
Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.
-- Brenda Peterson -
There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.
-- Brennan Manning -
Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.
-- Brett Hull -
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
-- Brian Eno
