Essentialist Quotes

#1. Was I good or bad or mixed or what? And was the way I acted every day the real me, or was the real me somewhere so deep that I would never even know it?

Cynthia Kadohata

#2. When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Ryan Tedder

#3. Suddenly, she burst out, "I want to punch her evil, lying face."
Liam caught a flash of hot gold as Dad looked at them, narrow-eyed, in the rearview mirror. Dad said, completely seriously, "I can make that happen.

Thea Harrison

#4. It's funny how much influence our parents have on us." "True.

Susan Wiggs

#5. Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Margaret Mahy

#6. She had the kind of face that must be seen in action to be attractive.

Patricia Highsmith

#7. A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.

Evan Esar

#8. Middle Way school is uncomfortable with the potentially essentialist implications of "foundational consciousness" as postulated in the eightfold system.

Dalai Lama XIV

#9. I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms.

Sarah Ruhl

#10. I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

Mallory Ortberg

#11. The life of an Essentialist is a life lived without regret. If you have correctly identified what really matters, if you invest your time and energy in it, then it is difficult to regret the choices you make. You become proud of the life you have chosen to live.

Greg McKeown

#12. Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

Paulo Coelho

#13. The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

Aron Nimzowitsch

#14. I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

Suzanne Finnamore

#15. I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

Totie Fields

#16. I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble - everything seems important - so of course nothing is.

Greg McKeown

#17. That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

Paul Greengrass