Quotes with essence

  • I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
  • Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
  • True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
  • In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
  • The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
  • It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Aristotle The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Lord George Byron A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Glenda Jackson Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Bruce Barton Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz An intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Avicenna As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • George Eliot But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Bill Bruford 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
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza Desire is the essence of a man.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Albert Camus Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Amy Lowell For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Bootsy Collins Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.
    Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    British actor (1988 - )
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