Essentials Quotes - Page 31

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.

We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.

But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.