Top 100 Quotes About Essentials
#1. A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
Rene Dubos
#2. American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
Wallace Stegner
#3. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.
George MacDonald
#4. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.
Watchman Nee
#5. A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.
Peter Dicken
#6. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
#7. I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.
W. H. Auden
#8. Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.
Khaled Abou El Fadl
#9. In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
Horatio Greenough
#10. When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.
Dwight Edwards
#11. The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.
Earle Birney
#12. The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
Phillips Brooks
#13. 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
#14. The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.
Harold B. Lee
#15. I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.
May Sarton
#16. And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
Richard Avedon
#17. The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness ... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.
Eckhart Tolle
#18. Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.
Max De Pree
#19. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep
#20. The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
Erwin Schrodinger
#22. Don't be carried away by the current of the situation. Focus on the essentials, take action on the best alternative are the ways of shifting from reactive to proactive mindset.
Amit Ray
#23. Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want
John Whitmore
#24. Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being ...
J. G. A. Pocock
#26. Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
J.D. Greear
#27. Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#28. The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
Jamie L. Harding
#29. 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
#30. A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.
Ayn Rand
#31. In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.
Ross Parmenter
#32. I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.
Kathleen Norris
#33. The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson
#34. The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
Agnes Repplier
#35. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
Ada Lovelace
#36. MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.
Douglas Coupland
#37. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.
George Leonard
#38. Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.
Dan Quayle
#40. For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#41. We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
J. Boone
#42. Surely the relationship between inconveniences suffered and privileges granted was part of the very essentials of learning how to handle people without an explosion.
Isaac Asimov
#43. In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
Philipp Melanchthon
#44. A healthy workforce is essential to grow our state and compete in the global marketplace. These actions are important to improve the health security of Iowans by making healthcare more affordable and accessible.
Tom Vilsack
#45. Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#46. Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Oswald Chambers
#48. The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
H.L. Mencken
#49. It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
Steve Martin
#51. Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.
Matthew Syed
#53. It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
Angela Davis
#54. An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Edmund Burke
#55. Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound
#56. Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.
Jeff Olson
#57. Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
T. S. Eliot
#58. A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
Luis Bunuel
#59. 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
#60. The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.
Pierre De Coubertin
#61. I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated; his heart and mine.
Jeanette Winterson
#62. I am not in the position to sacrifice the essentials of life in the hope of acquiring the luxuries. -Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
#63. 95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.
Ha-Joon Chang
#64. 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
#65. The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.
Adolf Hitler
#66. Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel.
Jonathan Cainer
#67. Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.
Grete Waitz
#68. Energy security based on clean & reliable sources is essential for India's future. Nuclear energy has a key role in India's energy strategy.
Narendra Modi
#69. I didn't feel like it was essential to have a white host or a black host, I wanted a good host.
Harvey Levin
#70. Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
Ernest Renan
#71. To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and survive. That is absolutely essential for a collaboration to succeed.
Van Dyke Parks
#72. Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.
Robert Pollok
#73. Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.
Carlos Slim
#74. What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
Rudy Giuliani
#75. The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
Albert Camus
#76. It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
Michel Foucault
#77. It is always my policy to give in on non-essentials. It is only on essentials where I feel that the Will of God is at stake that I am adamant.
Gordon Lindsay
#78. All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#80. Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.
Rebecca Goldstein
#81. Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change.
Michael Bell
#82. Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.
Columba Stewart
#83. Slicing down your fluff to the core essentials is how you get to genius.
Jeff Goins
#84. Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life
Jonas Mekas
#85. There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.
Spencer W. Kimball
#86. The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
Kenneth Tynan
#87. Great paintings have gradations, large and small ... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.
Robert Genn
#88. Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.
Joseph Bernardin
#89. The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
Joseph Joubert
#90. Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#91. I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.
M. Russell Ballard
#92. It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.
Richard Dawkins
#93. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why Pixar's goal is to screw up as fast as possible.
Lee Unkrich
#94. Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
Saul Alinsky
#95. Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.
Warren Buffett
#96. The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.
Kurt Schwitters
#97. The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith's for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a particular broad-natured pain ever afterwards associated with grammar.
Ali Smith
#98. The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.
Theodore Roosevelt
#99. Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
#100. Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
Washington Allston
