Essential Quotes

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

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

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

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

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

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.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.