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An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation
On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.
Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.
Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.
It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing.
Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.
Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
As our understanding of obedience deepens, we recognize the essential role of agency.
The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.
We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness.
By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.
There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.
We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.
Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.
I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
Technology is very important; it enables connection to one another, which is essential.
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.