Essentials Quotes

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.