Element Quotes

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Human, Feelings

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

Design, Together, Soul

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Joyce Brothers

Life, Person, Become

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Ron Paul

Society, Important, Free

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success, Great, Long

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
William James

Nor, Neither, Admit

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, Silence, Together

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle

Beauty, Goodness, Virtue

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Denis Waitley

Success, Time, Successful

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Positive, Freedom

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman

Society, Ignorance, Violent

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward Bernays

Society, Important, Opinions

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
Christian Louboutin

Men, Sexy, Woman

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Paul Tillich

Faith, Doubt, Opposite

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer

Down, Ourselves, Pleasure

I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.
Henry Rollins

Today, Road, Stage

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
V. S. Naipaul

Writing, Judging, Easy

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg

Rock, Revolution, Victory

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle

True, Cannot, Others

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
Franz Kafka

Love, Nature, Alone

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper

Essential, Invention, Replace

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.
Snoop Dogg

Moving, Hard, Keep

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga

Music, Work, Nature

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
Milton Glaser

Real, Talent, Desire

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh

Life, Success, Happiness

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
J. P. Morgan

Simple, Thinking, Problem

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Andre Dubus III

Important, Strange, Belief

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul Getty

Business, Greatest, Off

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
John Dewey

Whole, Complex, Object

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Augustus Hare

Mind, Cannot, Wings

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