Quotes About Essentialism

#1. screw that gender essentialism bullshit, men have as much of a right to care about clothes as women. Girls can like sports and cars and guns. So why does it even matter if you identify as a girl, a boy or as neither?

I. W. Gregorio

#2. Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

Greg McKeown

#3. Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, I am for people, individuals - exactly like automobile insurance - individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance,

Newt Gingrich

#4. The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Herbert Read

#5. Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Cyril Connolly

#6. You care for empresses and queens?" I asked him.
"No. For tragic heroines."
"Why them?"
"Suffering and courageous women who deserve their own immortality.

Ronald Frame

#7. I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind.

Orson Scott Card

#8. To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Bruce Feirstein

#9. Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

Christian Lacroix

#12. When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#13. I suppose it's all a matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to - the rules, the idiots who think they're hot shit, ...

Haruki Murakami

#14. I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

Joe Williams

#15. Here's what it is, here's what it isn't, now here's why you need to go tell everyone how smart I am.

Robert Anton Wilson

#16. Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec