Essence Quotes
-
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Thomas Carlyle
-
The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.
Stephen Covey
-
The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.
Steven Spielberg
-
No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
-
Love is in essence subversive.
Andreï Makine
-
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
Samuel Smiles
-
Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
Huston Smith
-
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
William Hazlitt
-
I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in Hamlet did happen several times in the 500 years of Ottoman history.
Haris Pasovic
-
Oppression is the essence of power.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
-
I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
Tom Shadyac
-
Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
-
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
Northrop Frye
-
What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
Plato
-
The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.
Carlos Mencia
-
The essence of justice is mercy.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
-
Existence without essence is very stressful.
Brian Christian
-
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
Sandra Bernhard
-
As we’ve seen, the essence of trauma is feeling godforsaken, cut off from the human race.
Bessel van der Kolk
-
I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.
Chairil Anwar
-
The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities
Stephen Covey
-
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
-
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
Ernest Becker
-
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
Miguel de Unamuno