Want Essentials Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.

Ayn Rand

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Harold Wilson

#7. The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

Agnes Repplier

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

George Leonard

#11. Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

Dan Quayle

#12. [V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty ...

Alexander Hamilton

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

Philipp Melanchthon

#17. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

#18. And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.

Epictetus

#19. Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

Brett Hull

#20. The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Robert Collier

#21. Your question to me is about God, but boiled down to its essentials, it's not so different than most of the questions people ask me to answer. It says: This failed me and I want to do better next time. My answer will not be so different either: To do better you're going to have to try.

Cheryl Strayed

#22. A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.

Anita Roddick

#23. So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

Jenny Holzer

#24. Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

Molly Ringwald

#25. A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.

John Adams

#26. 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

#27. The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

Harold B. Lee

#28. American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Wallace Stegner

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#35. In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.

Horatio Greenough

#36. When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

Dwight Edwards

#37. The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

Earle Birney

#38. The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

Phillips Brooks

#39. 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

#40. A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Rene Dubos

#41. I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

May Sarton

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.

Max De Pree

#45. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

#46. The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#47. 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

#48. Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want

John Whitmore

#49. Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi