Essential Quotes

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

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

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

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.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

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

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.