Quotes about essence
essence ideas numbers
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. George Boole
essence indifference inhumanity
Indifference is the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw
essence essentials abstract
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence. Fred Brooks
essence needs stories
Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath. Jasper Fforde
essence entrepreneurship
Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship. Guy Kawasaki
essence people together
The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.
essence important stories
For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it. Graeme Murphy
essence new-orleans soul
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse... Harry Connick, Jr.
essence decay inactivity
The essence of decay is inactivity. Jack LaLanne
essence wrath giving
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications. J. I. Packer
essence offering giving
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out. Isabelle Eberhardt
essence judge talking
Judge Roberts, I'm not talking about an issue. I'm talking about the essence of jurisprudence. Arlen Specter
essence interesting may
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 Sienkiewicz
essence play childhood
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
essence play childhood
The essence of childhood, of course, is play.
essence views natural
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... C. S. Lewis
essence culture taught
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. Carl Rogers
essence witch procedures
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
essence speech opinion
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 Vaughan
essence discipline albums
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. Bill Bruford
essence ideas history
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. H. G. Wells
essence people our-words
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves. Jean de la Bruyere
essence use world
The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process. Jean Baudrillard
essence information overwhelming
Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership. Carly Fiorina
essence oppression
Oppression is the essence of power. Ernst Kaltenbrunner
essence students mechanic
All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations. Ernst Mach
essence problem lied
What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph. Errol Morris
essence existential mortality
All power is in essence power to deny mortality. Ernest Becker
essence relax able
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. Christopher Hitchens
essence brass-bands tolerance
It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words. Chris Rose
essence spontaneity pleasure
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. Germaine Greer
essence romance next
I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different. Glen Cook
essence risk innovation
Risk-taking is the essence of innovation. Herman Kahn