Essential Quotes

#1. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.

George Washington

#3. Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating.

Lewis Mumford

#4. Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

Andre Balazs

#5. Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit - the cosmos?

John Muir

#6. Those "feminine charms" we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity - developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process. But

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

Albert Einstein

#8. Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

Ruth Bernhard

#9. Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

Garry Kasparov

#10. The essential thing is learning how not to be absent from one's own life.

Marty Rubin

#11. Knowledge is the most essential ingredient of life, and it comes from curiosity.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Comfort, support, and care are essential in maintaining and improving an individual's mental efficiency, in part because they have important physiological calming effects (Schore, 1994; 2003b), and favorable effects on the immune system.

Onno Van Der Hart

#13. Only what is essential must be said.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

George Washington

#15. Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.

Elias Hasket Derby

#16. We are convinced, as some of you may be convinced, that changing the way we produce and use energy is essential to America's economic future, that it will create millions of new jobs, power new industries, keep us competitive, and spark new innovation.

Barack Obama

#17. Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

John Dewey

#18. The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.

Orlando Figes

#19. With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

Gary Weiss

#20. Finding joy in times of pain begins with understanding that true joy is rooted in God. Thus, keeping one's relationship with God at the center of one's life is essential to discovering areas of joy, comfort and solace.

James Martin

#21. Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#22. I've recently come to the conclusion that the nursery rhyme riddle is the most basic form of the detective story. It's a mystery stripped of all but the essential facts. Take this one, for instance: As

Alan Bradley

#23. To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

Katharine Graham

#24. If anything happiness is a feeling of being essential

Fay Weldon

#25. What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

Reginald Horace Blyth

#26. What was the point of giving your life to someone if they didn't feel essential to you, if they didn't feel part of you?

Suzanne Wright

#27. When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

Frederick Lenz

#29. 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

#30. But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

Gene Siskel

#31. The framers understood that the president, as the head of our armed forces, must defend the nation from imminent threat. But when the mission shifts from defense to offense, congressional approval is essential.

Tim Kaine

#32. Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

Ray Comfort

#33. As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:
~people applaud you incessantly.
~love you more than their parents.
~give you a daily bread.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#34. The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.

Rupert Spira

#35. She mistrusted the periods of quiet that are essential to true growth. Desiring

E. M. Forster

#36. Wasn't loving him like loving the sun, so beautiful and warm, essential to light but deadly if you got too close?

Jenny Trout

#37. Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.

Carl R. Trueman

#38. A belief in yourself, and your dreams, your ability to achieve them, and the purpose of life are essential ingredients of success. In fact, I tend to believe that success is directly proportional to the degree of belief.

Vishwas Chavan

#39. The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within ... Nothing is more essential to us.

Marilynne Robinson

#40. Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

Seth Godin

#41. We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

Saint Bernard

#42. One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

H.P. Lovecraft

#43. The bargain was this: Admit the anxiety as an essential part of yourself and in exchange that anxiety will be converted into energy, unstable but manageable. Stop with the self-flagellating and become yourself, with scars and tics.

Daniel Smith

#44. Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.

Ken Blackwell

#45. No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

J. P. Morgan

#46. For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Manuel Puig

#47. She knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding the inessential and the essential alike, making use of the stolen pieces and memories, retreating to the lost moments of other people's lives.

Yiyun Li

#48. Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools - to "fecundate" machines as bees fecundate plants - until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.

Anonymous

#49. Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Bob Ainsworth

#50. In East Asia generally, the notion of a Supreme Being, so essential to Western religions, is replaced by that of a Supreme State of Being, an impersonal perfection from which beings including man are separated only by delusion.

John Blofeld

#51. I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'

Mary Ellen Mark

#52. It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.

Nicola Sturgeon

#53. The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.

Thomas Jefferson

#54. There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

Joanna Macy

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

Brian Tracy

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

Anthony Burgess

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

Catherine Stock

#58. Like most people on the planet I have experienced moments when a friend's, or just a stranger's, warm cheering up was like a gulp of oxygen essential for survival.

Sahara Sanders

#59. Hamilton saw America's essential nature being forged in the throes of battle, and that made honest action imperative.

Ron Chernow

#60. A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.

Edwin Meese

#61. 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

#62. People sometimes find Buddhism pessimistic, saying there is too much talk about death. It's essential to understand that Buddhists don't contemplate death because they are morbid or depressed; they focus on death, mortality, and human frailty as a means of better understanding and appreciating life.

Lama Surya Das

#63. (T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.

Jincy Willett

#64. And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.

Stephen Cambone

#65. The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#66. No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#67. Religion is life essential.

George MacDonald

#68. Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.

Frederick Weisel

#69. We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.

Rabindranath Tagore

#70. The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

Edward Tufte

#71. We need to start a new philisophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life.

Jandy Nelson

#72. Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

Jeff Jarvis

#73. Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

Bertrand Russell

#74. No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.

Ezra Taft Benson

#75. Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

Mac Barnett

#76. Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him.

Max Anders

#77. Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the identity of the people we marry. Keeping this in mind, casting a ballot is not just essential - it's practical!

Maria Rubio

#78. Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Arnold Bennett

#79. We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

Michelle Bachelet

#80. My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.

Mike Berenstain

#81. Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Virginia Woolf

#82. The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than when he began reading - that stimulates his thinking, stretches his mind, deepens his feelings. A good book sticks to your ribs.

Rebecca Caudill

#83. There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

Geoffrey Nunberg

#84. The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

Henri Matisse

#85. Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

Johan Huizinga

#86. Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

Warren Bennis

#87. Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#88. What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Albert Einstein

#89. This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits ... People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.

Yehuda Levi

#90. Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

Sissela Bok

#91. In the words of Lynne McTaggart: Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

Dan Brown

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

David Douglass

#93. Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

Boyd K. Packer

#94. To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events. The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Adolf Hitler

#95. I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#97. 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

#98. Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.

Chris Prentiss

#99. If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.

Piet Mondrian

#100. Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

Napoleon Bonaparte