Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Oscar Wilde

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Oscar Wilde

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Oscar Wilde

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

Louis Kronenberger

The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

Michael Novak

In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.

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.

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.

Leopold Stokowski

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

Larry Wall

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

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.

I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.

Maurice Cheeks

I knew it was gonna be a tough game. The essence of that game was that they played harder than we did. ... It was our first quarter and third quarter that put us in the hole.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

Ansel Adams

In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things...It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators...

David A. Bednar

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

In essence what we're doing is taking the folks who would have formerly been called sporadic (environmental), and testing how important genetic influences are...and we're finding genetic influences are tremendously important.

In essence the homeowner can still end up getting zero.

In essence it was a reprieve from Wednesday.

Nick Hanauer

I'm not the smartest guy you've ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all - I can't write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.