T Quotes
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“The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.”
“The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.”
“The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.”
“The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.”
Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production
“The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.”
“The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.”
“The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.”
“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”
Source: How to enjoy your life and your job
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
“The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“The essence of all beauty, I call love.”
Source: Poetical works
“The essence of all being is love,
and the world of forms
is its dance,
its play,
its expression,”
Source: Beautiful Human!: Discovering the Essence of Life
“The essence of all experience is Rasa – Bliss.”
“The essence of all health begins through joyful living.”
“The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.”
“The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.”
“The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.”
“The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.”
“The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa
“The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness, I and God are One. Why? The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me.”
“The essence of all Shastras is Bhakti Yoga.
The Cause is Satvika Guna.”
“The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.”
“The essence of all things determines souls
that are fit to send messages for their kinds.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“The essence of all virtues is one and the same, it's love.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.”
“The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies”
“The essence of American racism is disrespect.”
“The essence of an orgy is the disappearance of the individual into a greater whole, in a group that has replaced the normal rules by other ones. The limitations of genital orgasm are replaced by the ecstatic enthusiasm of the group, a curious kind of total jouissance that interconnects the individuals and therefore eases them”
Source: Love in a Time of Loneliness
“The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.”
“The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals.”
“The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.”
“The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.”
“The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?”
Source: A Confession and Other Religious Writings
“The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.”
“The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.”
Source: The Cross of Christ
“The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.”
“The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.”
Source: Bruges-La-Morte
“The essence of beauty is unity in variety.”
“The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.”
“The essence of being human is being creative.”
Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
“The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.”
Source: The Courage to Create
“The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.”
Source: It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
“The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.”
Source: Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic
“The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.”
Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
“The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.”