Essence Quotes

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

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

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.

The essence of justice is mercy.

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

If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.