Essentials Quotes - Page 20

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

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

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Stillness is your essential nature.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.

The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.

An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!

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.

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.