Essential Matters Quotes

#1. If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield!

J.P. Vaswani

#2. Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#4. Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ...

Albert Einstein

#5. I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

Vera Farmiga

#6. I don't know how much longer I can complain.

Homer

#7. Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Pope Paul VI

#8. I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

Marilyn Manson

#9. And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

Bill Murray

#10. I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.

Ruth Reichl

#11. Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Euripides

#12. Without idealism, politics is reduced to a form of social accounting, the day-to-day administration of men and things. This too is something that a conservative can survive well enough. But for the Left it is a catastrophe.

Tony Judt

#13. In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

Oscar Wilde

#14. I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

Vladimir Nabokov

#15. Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

Pope Benedict XVI

#16. I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.

Chelsea Handler

#17. Timelessness is realizing that everything that has ever or will ever happen already exists simultaneously in another reality or dimension.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#18. Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.

Yasmin Mogahed

#19. Your thoughts are you own! What you dwell on the day-to-day will manifest in your conscious mind. Release those negative impulses, hatred towards others, and in turn, you'll find people doing the same.

Martin R. Lemieux

#20. If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

Lauren Mayberry

#21. Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.

Pearl Zhu

#22. The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'

Joanna Lumley

#23. Deeper, true I. When I know myself as that, whatever happens in my life is no longer of absolute but only of relative importance. I honor it, but it loses its absolute seriousness, its heaviness. The only thing that ultimately matters is this: Can I sense my essential

Eckhart Tolle

#24. Only by digging deep down to the core of our true self can we come to a place of inner certainty. Our underlying values and priorities are our personal navigational stars on life's journey - essential tools to chart a life course that embraces what matters most to us.

Marian Deegan

#25. If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.

John Maynard Keynes

#26. The scientist ... must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything.

Hermann Bondi

#27. Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

Joshua Foer