Essential Quotes

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

Knowing how people will use something is essential.

Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.

Paint the essential character of things.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.