The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
David Herbert Lawrence

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.
Frank Shorter

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
Thomas de Quincey

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
Brandon Boyd

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Georg Simmel

Knowing how people will use something is essential.
Donald Norman

Paint the essential character of things.
Camille Pissarro

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.
Peter Jennings

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
Yitzhak Rabin

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
Bob Riley

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.
Armstrong Williams

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
Manuel Puig

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
Judi Dench

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.
Arthur Herzog

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
Holly Near

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
Ray Blanton

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig