Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

Herman Melville

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

H. L. Mencken

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

Jerry Greenfield

Ben & Jerry's evolved into what it is doing and is trying to transition its supply chain, but this is essentially retrofitting. In the social enterprise movement, we see companies whose essence, the products they make, the reason they exist from day one, is because these people see something out in the world that they cannot accept.

Jennifer Egan

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

Jerry Seinfeld

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

Jeffrey Sachs

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

Jeffrey Sachs

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

James C. Collins

The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

Frantz Fanon

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

Jeff Cooper

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence is prior to essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

Georges Bataille

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

George Will

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

Jasper Fforde

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

Esther Hicks

Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of your desires is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button).

Grimes

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video.

Graham Hancock

We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The very essence of success is practice.

Hannah Arendt

Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

George Boole

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

George Bernard Shaw

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

Fred Brooks

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

Frank Borman

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Frederick Douglass

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Fernando Pessoa

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

Ferdie Pacheco

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

Felix Mendelssohn

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

Ezra Pound

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

Francis Ford Coppola

The essence of cinema is editing.