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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.
To get a sense of a person, to get their essence, it's not just about details. It is about something you can't really describe.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.
The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!
The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.
Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.
The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.
Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.
There is an essence of, when you are fearless, you become more creative, and the more fearless I became, the more creative I was.
If the U.S. were to not reauthorize the Ex-Im bank, it's in essence unilaterally disarming in a globally competitive environment.
In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.
What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.
Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.
The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.
Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.
We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.
People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.
You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.
You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.
We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.
The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.
Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.