Quotes about essence
essence leaving trials
Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for. Neal A. Maxwell
essence duration today
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. Mikhail Khodorkovsky
essence events looks
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it. Oscar Wilde
essence growth essence-of-life
The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
essence inspire special
The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger. Louis Kronenberger
essence justice people
In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny. Michael Novak
essence
You're as good as anybody. Martin Luther King, Jr.
essence grace ifs
If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved. R. C. Sproul
essence two soul
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. Leonardo da Vinci
essence essence-of-life highest
The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself. Leopold Stokowski
essence sanity inconsistent
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. Larry Wall
essence keys firsts
Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else… By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product. Paul Buchheit
essence greek body
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
essence divinity lasts
Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being. Giordano Bruno
essence divine participation
I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
essence
Urgh — essence of Millicent Bulstrode. J. K. Rowling
essence want my-own
I want to be defined by my own essence. Kathy Bates
essence color painting
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed. Kazimir Malevich
essence would-be opinion
Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are. Ravi Zacharias
essence earth honey
we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible. Rainer Maria Rilke
essence trying limits
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. Michael Porter
essence deep-thought transcendentalism
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
essence people marketing
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends. Seth Godin
essence riches proportion
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. John Wesley
essence sides apostasy
The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier. John Stott
essence addiction drug
The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all. Nora Volkow
essence way tasks
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature Niels Bohr
essence religion intolerance
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. Morris Raphael Cohen
essence phenomenology reservations
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
essence males female
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover. Marina Warner
essence trying useless
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try Mary Stewart
essence together atoms
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages. Martin Rees
essence management productive
The essence of management is to make knowledge productive. Peter Drucker