Essential Quotes
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Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
Rumi -
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
Albert Camus
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Technology is very important; it enables connection to one another, which is essential.
David Batstone -
I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.
Denise Levertov -
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.
Richard M. DeVos -
A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential.
David Blankenhorn
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I believe that work is essential to human well-being.
Moshe Vardi -
The object of their desire, the “essential” core of life, is something called authenticity, and finding the authentic has become the foremost spiritual quest of our time. It is a quest fraught with difficulty, as it takes place at the intersection of some of our culture’s most controversial issues, including environmentalism and the market economy, personal identity and the consumer culture, and artistic expression and the meaning of life.
Andrew Potter -
A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
Sargent Shriver -
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
Rick Perlstein -
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
Richard Shelby -
I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.
Eva Green
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Every entrepreneur needs ideas, vision, and creativity - no matter what the product or service. Not only that, but the product should truly delight customers and become an essential part of their lives.
Min Kao -
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz -
Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
Susan Cain -
You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.
Boyd K. Packer -
Everyone of you right now is valuable and essential.
Neill F. Marriott -
To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.
Deena Metzger
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I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don't want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects.
Michael Oren -
That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.
Elvin Jones -
Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
Sydney Pollack -
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
Francis Crick