Essentials Quotes - Page 14

Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate human beings with high standards-whom I completely and unequivocally adore-don't always agree with-but always admire and respect. They all have wit and a sense of humor and, thank God, I have hung on to mine.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.

That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.