Essentials Quotes - Page 4

I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional changes, especially regarding wage-setting and other aspects of the employment relationship, would be essential if full employment was to be sustained.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit.

True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.

Simply put, success in LSU football is essential for the success of Louisiana State University.

In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world-we change ourselves!

The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history.

I think that what you’ve got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern.

There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.