Essence Quotes

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

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.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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

I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.