Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Maxwell Maltz

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
David Herbert Lawrence

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
Gustave Courbet

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Aleister Crowley

People are essentially red meat. They are.
Max Cannon

People essentially like local news better than network news.
Roone Arledge

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
Ted Nelson

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.
Michael Hutchence

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke

Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.
S. H. Miller

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
Maurice Denis

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
Thomas Lynch

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.
Kevin Mitnick

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Terry Riley

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
Tina Fey

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
Alain de Botton

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.
Robbie Coltrane

The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.
Allen Weinstein

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida