The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Michael Porter

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
Michael Porter

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Felix Mendelssohn

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan

The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
John Arbuthnot Fisher

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
John Gunther

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

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy.
Lawrence Kasdan

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
Valentina Tereshkova

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

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.
Genevieve Bujold

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.
John Jakes

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Virginia Woolf

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Walter Bagehot

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
Vince Lombardi

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.
William Ames

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.
Junius