Essentials Quotes - Page 10

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

Make chance essential.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

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

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that ‘begging bowl’ to which the gift is drawn.

What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. . . works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies”, a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without the market, but where there is no gift, there is no art.

Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.