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

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Thomas J. Watson

Trust, Power, Between

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Alex Noble

Peace, Nature, Good

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

Love, Alone, Succeed

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

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

Sexuality, Pursuit, Seduction

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'
William Shatner

Enough, Fact, Hurts

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

True, Soul, Creativity

Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Spinoza

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 whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
Chuck Jones

Work, Good, Thinking

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

Women, Great, Poetry

The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer

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

Freedom, America, Individual

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

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

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

Great, Book, Ideas

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

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

Desire is the very essence of man.
Baruch Spinoza

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

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

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
Irving Babbitt

Democracy, Might, Simply

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

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

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

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
Martin Heidegger

Enough, Means, Action

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
Arlen Specter

Democracy, Free, Electorate

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

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