Essence Quotes

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

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

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

The essence of good government is trust.

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.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.