“The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.” IfsMenMovingPayFailingAchieveEssenceEmbraceDefinitionsImperfectionMoving Ahead Author:Norman Cousins
“A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.” LooksSelfPastMovingOrderShadowEssenceCurrentsPursuitChosenStreamsBackwards Book:Josiah Royce: Selected Writings Source: Josiah Royce: Selected Writings
“If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.” IfsMenWorldMindMayEndsGovernmentMovingLawCommonFashionProduceLessonsTasksEssenceBasesEducationalSecureSufficientInterpretationRighteousnessCooperationWorld Government Author:H. G. Wells
“Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.” DifferentMovingFeltClassCollegeGrewGrew UpEssenceTownsMovedMilesPostsSouthernWorking ClassBeltsDifferent PlaceRustBaltimore Author:David Simon
“I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah. That led me to discover through census data that these towns were already extremely white and they were becoming, in most cases, even whiter. Statistics could only tell me so much; in order to get to the spirit and essence of it, I had to immerse myself.” MovingSpiritOrderWhiteCasesBecomingEssenceTownsFolksHearingDataStatisticsBuzzOregonUtahIdahoCensus Author:Richard Benjamin
“No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect of knowledge. That is of its very essence. What a thing society is! The workingman, with his trade union, knows that. Men and women moving in polite society understand it, still better. But Bohemians, like me, whose work is done in solitude, are apt to forget that not only is a man as a whole little better than a brute in solitude, but also that everything that bears any important meaning to him must receive its interpretation from social considerations.” KnowsMenHumansLittlesStillsImportantDoneWholeMovingSocialForgetBearsSolitudeMen And WomenAspectEssenceAccountsTradeUnionsLike MeConsiderationDescriptionInterpretationPoliteBrutesMoving InHuman KnowledgeTrade Unions Author:Charles Sanders Peirce
“I listened more than I asked. There's a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see - the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space.” WayHandsWantedMovingSpaceStyleInformationEssenceMadDetailsObviousCommunicateVideoInterviewsOnlineGesturesYoutubeHer Smile Author:Vera Farmiga
“As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start to see the lovely hilarity of life. Things that were once so crushing take on a different essence. I move through it at a faster rate. It's like traveling: it opens my eyes. My process is to allow myself to have it and to not judge myself or the situation too much, and then to create something with it.” DifferentEyePainMovingGrowsProcessInterestingSituationToo MuchJudgingTypeEssenceRateLovelyFasterCrushHilarity Author:Rachael Yamagata
“There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.” MovingSilenceTasksEssenceWho We AreStillness Author:Roger Housden
“I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.” PeopleThinkingKindMovingPoliticalUsedStrongGivenProcessUnitedPartyMoralGoneDemocracyStupidCitizensStandardsAdvantageEssenceCourtSupremeMassiveGrantsEthicalFloodSupreme CourtBackwardsTaxationRulingAdmirablePolitical SystemsSupplementsAdventAmerican DemocracyCitizens UnitedEthical Standards Author:Jimmy Carter
“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise” MindMomentsWantedMovingFallHeavenStepsMagicLandHolyAngelShadowEssenceShiningMortalsRealmsParadiseEmptinessSensationsEcstasyVoidHeelsTimelessFlewKickingDovePhantomsHurryingLotusesBleakness Author:Jack Kerouac
“His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.” TryingChildrenMightEyeMovingCitiesMorningSawsFailingUniqueGloryReflectionEssenceTreatsConvictionAppearanceDesperateSicknessAnxiousDedicatedTendernessOur LoveSeemingContagiousComradeFireworksOthernessMorning GloryAmputees Author:Angela Carter
“You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.” MindHeartSoulBodyMovingMy HeartBeatsEssenceBreathsWaveBreatheMy SoulChestsPouringWanting You Author:Jacquelyn Frank
“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.” LifeSoulPastMovingLife IsDiesTeachEssenceNurtureEssence Of Life Book:Mariana Source: Mariana
“Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.” PastMovingLawGrowsProgressEvolutionEssenceSeasonsMoving ForwardLeftovers Author:Hal Borland
“The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.” HumansLooksUseLightMovingLife IsEvilLiteratureMoralityEssenceHuman LifeOppositionGood And EvilQuestioning Author:Georges Bataille
“Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.” PeopleMenMadeMovingForceEnjoyResponsibilityPowerEssenceMovedTrapped Book:The Making of the President 1960 Source: The Making of the President 1960
“The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.” WayHeartMovingBehindsPracticeSeeingOrdinaryEssenceExtraordinaryEverydayCuriosityCraftsParksShopsTravelerEveryday LifeVeilsTourismSoulfulChapelOverlapping Author:Phil Cousineau
“The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest. We need to fight very hard to create an environment out there that is more long term focussed and move away from short termism.” WorldNeedsLongSelfHardMovingFightingTermInterestWealthEnvironmentGreaterThis WorldCapitalismEssenceThreatLong TermSanityShort TermSelf InterestGreater GoodPersonal Wealth Author:Paul Polman
“Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate.” YearsArtTwoBodyMovingThreeHoursSpaceEffortStudyFourThousandEssenceTransformationMilesMartial ArtsResolveFour YearsRevealingBullsKarateThousand Miles Author:Anko Itosu