Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.

Tom Robbins

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.

Stephen Covey

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses

Sigmund Freud

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

Shelley Long

In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

Stevie Nicks

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

Ravi Zacharias

Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

Michael Porter

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

Michael Porter

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Seth Godin

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.

John Wesley

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

John Stott

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

Mark Driscoll

I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.

Ted Cruz

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

Kimora Lee Simmons

Be true to yourself, and stick with who you are through thick and thin without letting anyone dilute your essence.

Michael Parenti

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

May Sarton

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

Marina Warner

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

Mary Stewart

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Martin Rees

During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

John Trudell

It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

John Searle

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

John Perry

The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.

John Piper

What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

Mark Thomas

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

Peter Drucker

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Nora Volkow

The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

Niels Bohr

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

Morris Raphael Cohen

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Mason Cooley

Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.

Michael K. Powell

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.