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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

Life, Love, Happiness

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Great, Hard

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
Richard Branson

Business, Yourself, True

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran

Silence, Speech, Pay

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep

Everything, Effect, Motherhood

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller

Life, Success, May

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
David Duchovny

Money, Food, Spend

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
Philipp Melanchthon

Liberty, Charity, Unity

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
Robert Collier

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson

History, Successful, Sleep

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
Arthur Henderson

Political, Nations, Policy

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Sam Shepard

Music, Writing, Play

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.
Jenny Holzer

Making, Film, Natural

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison

Far, Concerned, Jazz

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
Avicenna

Knowledge, Through, Study

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Stewart Alsop

Everything, Goal, Achieve

I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.
Jean Reno

Family, Good, Enjoy

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
Ronald Knox

Good, Long, Woman

I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
Wale

Game, Give, Big

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.
Kurt Sutter

Pretty, Learned, Joke

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.
Jamie Campbell Bower

Everything, Black, Big

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
Julia Ward Howe

Religion, Simple, Discipline

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
Marc Bloch

Change, History, Science

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