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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.
Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is what makes it all work.
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.
I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.
I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.
To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.
For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.
Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?
The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.
The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage.
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.
I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.
An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed
I think the most important thing [for moms] is - I always liked help with feeding essentials like breastfeeding stuff, because it's really tricky.
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.
A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.