Essentials Quotes:

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

- A. O. Scott

topic: Essentials, Timbuktu, Feels, Timely, Great Ones

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

topic: Teacher, Essentials, Way

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

topic: Essentials, Stories, Journalism, Wanton

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

topic: Self Esteem, Essentials, Care, Psychological Health

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

source: "Get Smart" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

topic: Mind, Essentials, Bugs, Decor

The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Art, Reading, Essentials

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Aquariums, Evil, Essentials, Mein Kampf

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

topic: Order, Essentials, Able

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

topic: Mean, Aquariums, Essentials, Human Society, Seizing

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Essentials, Critics, Reader

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

topic: Technology, Police, Essentials, Police State, Monitoring

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

- Albert Camus

topic: Essentials, Dimensions, Human Nature

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

- Albert Camus

topic: Order, Essentials, Should

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

- Albert Camus

topic: Truth, Essentials, Firsts

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

topic: Hands, Essentials, Logic

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Play, Essentials

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

source: "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

topic: Reading, Breathing, Essentials

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

topic: Yield, Essentials, Would Be, Essential Questions, Anthropocentrism

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

- Alex Toth

topic: Essentials, Hell, Draws

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

topic: Support, Community, Essentials

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

topic: Essentials, Reform, Obstacles

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

topic: Principles, Essentials, Body

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

source: Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

topic: Honesty, Drug, Essentials, Psychedelic Drugs

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

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ipods, Pockets, Essentials

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

topic: Running, Heaven, Essentials, Social Systems, Clockwork

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

source: "India: Urgent Call to Halt Odisha Mega-Steel Project Amid Serious Human Rights Concerns". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. October 01, 2013.

topic: Rights, People, Essentials

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

source: Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.61, Macmillan

topic: Truth, Parent, Essentials

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

topic: Differences, Justice, Essentials

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

topic: Adversity, Laughing, Essentials

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

topic: Essentials, Useless, Deceiving, Deeper Meaning, Euphoric

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

source: Alma Guillermoprieto (2011). “The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now”, p.105, Vintage

topic: Magic, Enemy, Essentials

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

- Alphonse Karr

topic: Haste, Essentials, Ingredients

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

topic: Differences, Essentials, Want

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Success, Essentials, Enthusiasm

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Heart, Essentials, Human Relations

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

topic: Foundation, Essentials, Savages, Savagery

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: Jobs, Government, Essentials, Facilitate

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

- Angela Davis

topic: Essentials, Heroic, Individual

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

topic: Differences, Essentials, May

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

topic: Fashion, Giving, Essentials

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

- Anna Eshoo

topic: Challenges, Essentials, Internet

...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

topic: Heart, Sound, Essentials, Tender Hearts

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Prayer, Essentials, Three

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

topic: Voice, Athletic, Essentials, Body Language

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

topic: Art, Choices, Essentials

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

topic: Ideas, Challenges, Essentials

World peace is the most essential outer realization of our time.

- Anodea Judith

topic: Peace, Essentials, Realization

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Real, Men, Essentials

The essential is invisible to the eyes.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Eye, Essentials, Invisible

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Character, Psychology, Essentials, Generalization, Center Of Gravity

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

topic: Magic, Trying, Essentials, Spoken Language

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

source: "At Houston lecture, Scalia explores Christian virtues and economic systems". www.houstonchronicle.com. September 6, 2013.

topic: Christian, Order, Essentials

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

- Ariana Franklin

source: Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.384, Penguin

topic: Essentials, Awful, Today

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

- Aristophanes

topic: Lying, Climbing, Essentials, Plunder, Public Life

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

topic: Passion, Hobbies, Essentials

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

- Armstrong Williams

topic: Essentials, Networking, Wealth, Building Wealth

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Essentials, Method, Working It, Efficient Work, Value Of Time

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

topic: Knowledge, Data, Essentials, Information Age

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

- Arthur Henderson

topic: Justice, Essentials, Social

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: Eye, Essentials, Term

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

topic: Art, Events, Essentials

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

topic: Expression, Two, Essentials, Electrical, Two Extremes

...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

topic: Jesus, Essentials, Saint, Above And Beyond, Glory Of God

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

source: Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

topic: Science, Views, Essentials

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

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Drama, Essentials, Add

My essential identity is that of a writer.

- Athol Fugard

topic: Identity, Essentials

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

topic: Men, Breathing, Essentials

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

source: "On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.

topic: Essentials, Causes, Study

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

topic: Liberty, Principles, Essentials

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

- Ayn Rand

source: William J. Mitchell (1994). “The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era”, p.6, MIT Press

topic: Rights, Essentials, Denial, Property Rights

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

- Barbara Sher

topic: Expectations, Events, Essentials, Beyond Control

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Writing, Sound, Essentials

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

topic: Ambition, Reality, Essentials, Parallel Universe, Talk Radio

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Discovery, Mind, Essentials

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

topic: Soul, Essentials, Care

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

topic: Dirty, Games, Essentials, Great Graduation

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

topic: Independent, Political, Essentials, Political Influence

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

- Benedetto Croce

topic: Essentials, Spirit, Humans

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Essentials

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

- Benjamin Tucker

topic: Aquariums, Essentials, Care

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

- Bent Larsen

topic: Essentials, Chess, Masters

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

topic: Running, Long, Essentials

For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

- Bernd Heinrich

topic: Spring, Essentials, Existence

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

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Thinking, Essentials, Certain, Doubt And Certainty

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

topic: People, Mind, Essentials

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

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Diversity, Essentials, Investing, Social Systems

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

- Beryl Bainbridge

source: Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.65, Hachette UK

topic: Men, Sky, Essentials

An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!

- Beth Moore

source: Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.122, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Christian, Victory, Essentials

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

topic: Photography, Essentials, Finals

The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.

- Bill Buford

topic: Family, Essentials

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

- Billy Graham

topic: Kindness, Essentials, Earth

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

topic: Hands, Progress, Essentials

Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing.

- Brad Goreski

source: "Brad Goreski Is Taking Care of Business". Interview with Kelsey Garcia, www.elle.com. March 13, 2013.

topic: Cute, Essentials, Looks

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

topic: Beauty, Prayer, Essentials

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

topic: Reality, Wish, Essentials

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

topic: Vision, Portraits, Essentials, Web Of Life, Best Science

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

topic: Essentials, Connections, Trust In God, Experiencing God

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

- Brett Hull

topic: Hockey, Winning, Essentials

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

- Brian Eno

topic: Aquariums, Voice, Essentials

Authenticity is essential to the soul!

- Brian Houston

topic: Soul, Essentials, Authenticity

The Internet and my web site have grown to become essential components of my business. The expertise and support that LuxSci continually delivers is crucial to maintaining the worldwide contact I need to succeed. LuxSci provides peace of mind!

- Brian Skerry

topic: Support, Mind, Essentials

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

- Brian Swimme

topic: People, Essentials, Stories

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Accomplishment, Essentials, Willpower

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.

- Brian Tracy

topic: New Year, Important, Essentials, New Years Resolution

Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Self Confidence, Knowing, Essentials

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

- Brian Tracy

topic: Organization, Essentials, Function

In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and gerneralizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.

- Bronislaw Malinowski

topic: Reality, Law, Essentials

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

- Bruce Barton

source: Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

topic: Essentials, Elements, Belief, Electricity And Magnetism, Magnetism

Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Exaltation, Essentials, Salvation, Polygamy

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Communication, Essentials, Conflict

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Heart, Essentials

Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit.

- Buddy Ebsen

topic: Important, Overcoming, Essentials, Vanquish

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

topic: Imagination, Essentials, Firsts

Paint the essential character of things.

- Camille Pissarro

topic: Character, Essentials, Paint

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

- Cardinal Richelieu

source: "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.

topic: Essentials, Firsts, Affair

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.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Competition, Survival, Essentials

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

- Carlos Mesa

topic: Sea, Essentials, Foreign Policy

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Usual, Essentials, Too Late

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

- Carolyn Heilbrun

topic: Matter, Essentials, Action

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

- Carson McCullers

topic: Loneliness, People, Essentials

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

- Catharine MacKinnon

source: Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.53, Harvard University Press

topic: Ideas, Dawn, Essentials

I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.

- Catherine Stock

topic: Thinking, Essentials, Periods

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Essentials, Astonishment, Unexpected, Irregularity

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

- Charles Edward Merriam

topic: Rights, Political, Essentials

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.

- Charles Eisenstein

topic: Thinking, Agreement, Essentials, Owning It

The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.

- Charles F. Haanel

source: Wendell Phillips (1863). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.52

topic: Essentials, Three, Way, Price Of Success

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

- Charles Frankel

source: CHARLES FRANKEL (1956). “THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN”

topic: Anxiety, Intellectual, Essentials, Artistic Creation

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

- Charles Kennedy

source: "The New Statesman Interview - Charles Kennedy". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.newstatesman.com. Januray 29, 2011.

topic: Essentials, Cigarette, Accepting

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

- Charles M. Schwab

topic: Boys, Careers, Essentials

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Vision, Essentials, Ingredients, Being Original

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

- Charles Schumer

topic: Honor, Liberty, Essentials

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Acting, Essentials, Actors, Great Actors

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

topic: Evil, Memorial, Essentials, Someone Dying

Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.

- Charlton Laird

topic: Baby, Civilization, Essentials

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

- Cheri Huber

topic: Ideas, Essentials, Looks

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

- Chiang Kai-shek

topic: Essentials, Three, Spirit

At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

- Chris Prentiss

topic: Pain, Healing, Essentials

You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost any occasion. A black dress is essential for every woman.

- Christian Dior

topic: Black, Age, Essentials

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

- Christopher Dawson

source: Christopher Dawson (2008). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.159, Ignatius Press

topic: Christian, Giving, Essentials, Christian Doctrine

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Laughing, Religion, Essentials, Blasphemy, Emancipation

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

- Chuck D

topic: Stupid, Voting, Essentials, Washing

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

- Claire Messud

source: "Claire Messud and Robin Desser". Interview with Robin Desser, www.slate.com. May 3, 2013.

topic: Writing, Essentials, World

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

- Claude M. Bristol

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.24, Lulu.com

topic: Desire, Energy, Essentials, Obsessing

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

- Confucius

topic: Practice, Essentials, Useless, Knowledge Is Dangerous

Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.

- Count of St. Germain

topic: Anxiety, Essentials, Divine

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Soul, Essentials, Killers, Stoic

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

- D. Todd Christofferson

topic: Good Man, Important, Essentials

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Long, People, Essentials, Wisdom And Experience, Older People

Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.

- Damon Lindelof

topic: Thinking, Essentials, Would Be

Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

- Dana Stabenow

topic: Facts, Principles, Essentials

The essential purpose of astrology is not so much to tell us what we will meet on our road, as it is to suggest how to meet it – and the basic reason for the meeting. Which quality in us, which type of strength is needed to go through any specific phase of our total unfoldment as an individual person.

- Dane Rudhyar

topic: Astrology, Quality, Essentials

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

topic: Essentials, Disease, Surveillance

No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Believe, When You Love Someone, Essentials, Compatibility, Autistic

The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.

- David

topic: Important, Essentials, Members

What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.

- David

topic: Views, Essentials, Spirit, Suspension

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

- David Batchelor

topic: Essentials, Use, Materials

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

- David Bayles

source: David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.21, Image Continuum Press

topic: Art, Desire, Essentials

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

- David Deida

topic: Love Is, Essentials, Infinite, Infinite Love

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

- David Douglass

topic: Falling In Love, Essentials, Should

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

- David Duchovny

topic: Essentials, Shelter

Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.

- David Gerrold

topic: Night, Sky, Essentials

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

- David Neeleman

topic: Office, Email, Essentials, Blackberries

I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

- David Petersen

source: David Petersen (2014). “Racks: A Natural History of Antlers and the Animals That Wear Them”, p.114, Booktango

topic: Meaningful, Essentials, Hunters

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

- David Ricardo

topic: Essentials, Utility, Values

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

- David Rockefeller

topic: Christian, Aquariums, Essentials, Christian Ethics

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Medicine, Long, Essentials, Overdose

There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for us, and to acknowledge his goodness to us. He has commanded that this should be so.

- Dean L. Larsen

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Learning, Together, Essentials, Joining Together

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Numbers, Essentials, World

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy

- Delia Smith

topic: Hands, Energy, Essentials, Grate

Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

- Demi Lovato

topic: Healthy, Skins, Essentials, Eating Healthy

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

- Dennis Lehane

topic: Luxury, Essentials, Purity, Picket Fences

It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

- Dhirubhai Ambani

topic: Son, Growth, Essentials, Further Education, Hard Way

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Love, Essentials, Sunlight

I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

- Diane di Prima

topic: Thinking, Two, Essentials, Newness, Pioneering

Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

- Dieter Rams

topic: Simplicity, Design, Essentials

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

- Dieter Rams

topic: Goal, Essentials, Advantage, Superfluous

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

- Don Murray

topic: Writing, Ignorance, Essentials

Knowing how people will use something is essential

- Donald A. Norman

topic: Knowing, People, Essentials

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

- Donald Calne

source: Donald Calne (2010). “Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior”, p.253, Vintage

topic: Emotional, Differences, Essentials

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

- Donna Tartt

topic: Essentials, Way, Subtle

Forgiveness is essential as the ultimate detox

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Essentials, Ultimate

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

topic: Men, Essentials, Aspect, Funny Men

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

topic: Character, Nurse, Essentials

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

- Douglas J. Feith

topic: Divorce, Opposites, Essentials

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

- Douglas Portway

topic: Hands, Mind, Essentials

When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

- Dwight Edwards

source: Dwight Edwards (2013). “Releasing the Rivers Within: The Exhilaration of Utter Dependence on God”, p.104, WaterBrook

topic: Opportunity, Essentials, Appearance

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

- Earle Birney

topic: Voice, Poetry, Essentials

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Life Changing, Identity, Essentials, Cherish Every Moment, Just Be Yourself

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Space, Perception, Essentials, Stillness Speaks

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Listening, Essentials, Way

Stillness is your essential nature.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Meditation, Essentials, Stillness

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

- Ed Asner

topic: Character, Essentials, Needs, Portraying

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

- Ed Koch

topic: Cities, Foundation, Essentials, Bankruptcy

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

topic: Essentials, Moderation, Good Work

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Commitment, Essentials, May, Economy And Economics, Parsimony

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

- Edmund Husserl

source: Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

topic: Reflection, Essentials, Moments

Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

- Edna Woolman Chase

source: Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”

topic: Hands, Together, Essentials

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

- Edsger Dijkstra

topic: Appreciate, Essentials, Ingredients

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

- Edward Albee

topic: Art, Animal, Essentials

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Art, Practice, Essentials