Essence Quotes

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks

Yourself, Person, Edited

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
Jerry Seinfeld

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky

Love, Alone, Succeed

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Camille Paglia

Sexuality, Pursuit, Seduction

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini

State, Fascism, Groups

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
Jack Welch

Important, While, Liberated

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Marilyn vos Savant

Freedom, America, Perfect

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
Jimmy Carter

Great, Christian, Leader

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek

Men, Experience, Win

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women, Great, Poetry

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
Marilyn vos Savant

Freedom, America, Individual

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Nnamdi Azikiwe

True, Soul, Creativity

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.
Tiger Woods

The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Hermann Hesse

Knowledge, Learning, Friend

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Character, Themselves, Within

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Bodhidharma

Nature, True, Through

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
Dennis Prager

Life, Nature, Good

Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Spinoza

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
Wavy Gravy

Done, Different, Soul

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Ang Lee

Life, Truth, Nothing

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
Roy H. Williams

Music, Time, God

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.
Glenn Beck

Faith, Character, Justice

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.
Stevie Wonder

Music, Song, Lives

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
Julia Roberts

Woman, Career, Him

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Constantin Brancusi

Real, Impossible, Anyone

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov

Great, Book, Ideas

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
Kate Millett

Change, Politics, Means

Desire is the very essence of man.
Baruch Spinoza

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