Essentials Quotes - Page 22

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.

Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of ones education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

Paint the essential character of things.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

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

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

T]here is no other purpose of my existence except to know, love and get closer to God. This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.