Essentials Quotes

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.

Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

The journey is essential to the dream.

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.

If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error is a catastrophe, a small error is essential for enhancing existence. Without error, there is no movement. Death follows.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.

SHINee is like the weather. Everyone has their own personalities and it's something that is essential to Earth.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.

The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.

The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love