Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfie Kohn

Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?

Andy Warhol

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.

George Ayittey

Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

Stephen Jay Gould

Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.

Burning Spear

I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.

the philosophy of the 'Bush Doctrine' is in essence force. It advocates the United States should rule over the whole world with overwhelming force, military force in particular.

Alex Gibney

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.

John Shelby Spong

I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.

Michael O'Donoghue

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

Henry Cloud

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

Stephen Jay Gould

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

Billy Graham

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

Pete Carroll

We're treating this very seriously. He's in essence been knocked down until we find out further what the situation is.

We saw him for the first time at Ocean Reef in Key Largo about a year ago. Within minutes of witnessing his presentation, we felt that this would be a wonderful vehicle for the guild. He is very literate, very witty, the essence of Irish charm.

William Shenstone

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Gustave Courbet

Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Bill Sienkiewicz

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed

Bill Cosby

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Bill Cosby

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

C. S. Lewis

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends...

Carl Rogers

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

Bill Vaughan

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

Bill Bruford

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Arlen Specter

Judge Roberts, I'm not talking about an issue. I'm talking about the essence of jurisprudence.

Bob Hope

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

Time is truly of the essence to give us time to review the plan and the state time to implement it.