A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Bruce Barton

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
Jackie Collins

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
Diane Ackerman

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Isadora Duncan

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
Paul Dirac

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Ramakrishna

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Mikhail Bakunin

The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis Diderot

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
Michael Faraday

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.
James Monroe

Few things are as essential as education.
Walter Annenberg

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
James Cash Penney

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

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
David Bohm

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
Stephen Harper