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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.
Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.
The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.
You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.
You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.
The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.
Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.
Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.
You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.
In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.
It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.
I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species.
The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.
How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.
At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.
... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.
Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.
Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.
Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'