Essentials Quotes - Page 17

Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health.

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

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.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

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.

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development.

Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as the matrix from which life has emerged and on which life depends. Recovering this sense is essential to establishing the framework for mutually enhancing human-Earth relations for the flourishing of life on the planet.