Best essence & loses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.”

Thinking Mind Self Loses Essence Regard Continuity Think Of You

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?”

Source: No Contest: The Case Against Competition

“Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.”

Important Loses Poor Modern Concepts Essence Simplicity Extremes Technique Craftsmanship

Author:George L. Carlson

“The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.”

World Self Care Loses Compassion Teaching Essence Importance Welfare Self-importance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.”

Loses Virtue Bears Approach Essence Plant Familiar Sensitive Exposed Fragrance

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.”

People Men Enough Asks Loses Prayer One Thing Men And Women Roots Essence Seeking Be A Man Gracious

Book:The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.”

Ifs Country America Loses Healthy Tradition Essence Skepticism

Author:Howard Fineman

“The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!”

“We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start to lose the essence of who we are as an open, freedom-loving people, welcoming to the rest of the world.”

People World Loses Worry Essence Terrorism Welcome Who We Are Guarding

Author:Colin Powell

“There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when I'm lost, I just feel like somewhere along the line, if you've gone through any childhood trauma, it makes you lose your essence and it takes a while to get that back. There are certain things about that that push my buttons.”

Ifs Feels Certain Lost Loses Lines Deals Gone Childhood Essence Trauma Uncomfortable Buttons Childhood Trauma Define You

Author:Mike Ness

“You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.”

Trying Song Loses Essence

Author:Tom Jones

“The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.”

Loses Essence University Inquiry

Author:Charles Koch

“This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.”

People Important Loses Modern Periods Essence Angry Mad Pace Leisure Frustrated Stopping Doing Nothing Hateful Modern Society Leisure Time

Author:Charles Bukowski

“The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.”

Men Way Persons Loses Pleasure Quality Creatures Essentials Essence Absolutes Aim Domination Another Way Quality Of Life Sadistic Sadism

Book:The Heart of Man

Source: The Heart of Man

“When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

Humans Joy Goal Loses Natural Human Beings Growing Understood Perfection Essence Ultimate Farming Crops Cultivation Ultimate Goal Joy And Happiness

Book:The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

Source: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

“Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.”

Mind Humans Left Force Process Loses Loss Existence Essentials Losing Essence Universal Bases Complaining Thanks Worthless Snakes Calamity Human Existence Inexplicable Parcel Slough

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.”

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.”

Humans Past Causes Change Loses Regret Creatures Essence Complaining Life Changing Discomfort Essence Of Life

Author:Anatole France

“Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.”

Looks Body Eye Form Lying Energy Loses Rooms Attention Fields Identity Please Essence True Nature Threshold Energy Fields

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.”

Love Passion Loses Love Is Forever Love You Essence Surprise Falling In Love Prisoner Making Love Mundane Amazement Forever Love Love Passion Predictability

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.”

Loses Virtue Essence Exposed Fragrance

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.”

Loses Perspective Essence

Author:Janis Joplin

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true immutable essence comes from that invisible realm that offers him an image of reality....I feel that I do not exist in time, but that time exists in me. I can also realize that it is not given to me to solve the mystery of art in an absolute fashion. Nonetheless, I am almost brought to believe that I am about to get my hands on the divine.”

Knows Feels Believe Wells Art I Can Enough Hands Reality Given Realizing Loses Mystery Fashion Divine Poet Offers Lucky Essence Absolutes Solve Invisible Painter Realms Instant

Author:Carlo Carra

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