Quotes about essence
essence justice mercy
The essence of justice is mercy. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
essence transcendentalism form
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. Avicenna
essence existence
In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
essence existence
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
essence democracy transcendentalism
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Anton Chekhov
essence needs care
We all need to be reminded to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder and to connect to that place from which everything is possible. Arianna Huffington
essence able iceberg
The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.
essence credit may
Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away. Anthony Trollope
essence
I had an essence in my life that I was nothing. Demi Moore
essence culture losing
Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence. Dana Gioia
essence movement action
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. Elia Kazan
essence democracy transcendentalism
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate. Arlen Specter
essence matter abstract
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. Ben Shahn
essence liberty guilt
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts. Charles Evans Hughes
essence mad people
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful. Charles Bukowski
essence risk return
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns. Benjamin Graham
essence safety unnecessary
The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.
essence skills cities
Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion. Jan Morris
essence life-is worthwhile
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. Denis Waitley
essence giving tasks
The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative. Deborah Eisenberg
essence listening world
If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself. Dennis Kucinich
essence vibrations
Life—God—in its essence is vibration. Edgar Cayce
essence generosity selfishness
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
essence ideas mind
We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.
essence news world
The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news. Charles Spurgeon
essence perfect dominion
We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.
essence civilization tribes
... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... Diane Wakoski
essence history mind
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. Catherine Drinker Bowen
essence simplicity taste
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste. Cary Grant
essence auto-tune creating
I tried to stay away from the Euro beats, and not go totally pop. Instead, I wanted to take the Quincy Jones approach. The record pays homage to the Stevie Wonders, the Michael Jacksons, the Sam Cookes. I wanted to put that classic essence of R&B and soul with the new age of music now. There’s a lot of live instruments, and a lot less Auto-Tune. I really wanted to demonstrate my vocal ability, creating the vibe of me singing along with a band. Chris Brown
essence generosity joy
Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken. Chogyam Trungpa
essence giving different
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. Charles Sanders Peirce
essence important research
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.