Essentials Quotes - Page 46

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.

Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.

We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.

Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.