Essentials Quotations | Page 7

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.

I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Few things are as essential as education.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

The essential doesn't change.

There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.

[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

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 its identity.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.

Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

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.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...

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.

I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.

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

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

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.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all: love.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

The journey is essential to the dream.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.