Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Buchheit

Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else… By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product.

Kazimir Malevich

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

Elia Kazan

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

Ben Shahn

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

Pope Benedict XVI

By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.

Pope Benedict XVI

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

Piet Mondrian

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Minor White

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

Pearl S. Buck

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

Terry Goodkind

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

Shannyn Sossamon

I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all.

Seymour Papert

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

Leonard Peltier

AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.

Laura Riding

The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them.

Marco Rubio

If you got to [abortion] centers, young women are provided very few options, in many places they're not told anything about, for example, adoption services that may be available to them. The idea that, in essence, you come in and it's already pre-determined, this is what place this place does. It provides abortions, and we are going to channel you in this direction.

Marcus Aurelius

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

Tara Brach

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

Lisa Alther

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Lili Taylor

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

Pema Chodron

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

Pema Chodron

Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.

Pema Chodron

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Pema Chodron

The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?

Pema Chodron

Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.

Queen Rania of Jordan

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

Pythagoras

To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!

Ramakrishna

We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.