Best essence & term Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence”

Reason Universe Term Consciousness Produce Essence Intimate No Reason Incapable

Author:Ezra Pound

“The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.”

Feelings Together Father Term Brother Essence Surprise Philosopher Wit Shock Unexpected Chemistry Explosions Cork

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion”

Should Long Eye Term Opinion Practice Behavior Criticism Essence Investing Average Long Term Investors Eccentric Unconventional

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.”

Soul Ends Whole Body Three Causes Term Movement Source Essence Senses

Book:On the Soul

Source: On the Soul

“The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.”

Kind Understanding Term Essence Metaphor

Book:Metaphors We Live By

Source: Metaphors We Live By

“What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.”

Faces Term Buddhism Pure Essence Originals

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We're in essence allowing our spirit to come to terms with all the conflicts that we build within ourselves. Disease is after all a conflict within the tissue itself. Memory fading within the tissue, conflict of our actions or thoughts, our lives are not seamlessly running together in some way for ourselves, and had not been for a long time before we get to the critical point of a disease.”

Way Long Running Action Together Spirit Term Memories Our Lives Conflict Disease Long Time Essence Critical Allowing Our Actions Tissues Fading Running Together

Author:Maya Tiwari

“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

“Everyone is wounded. No one is healthy enough to never screw up, when you're in combat. But, I like to show that, and I like to show how people get back from that. You have to forgive each other. When you're in the middle of a long-term commitment, the essence of it is that everyone is going to have good days and bad days, and it's about how you continue to rejoin forces.”

People Long Enough Shows Force Term Middle Healthy Commitment Essence Forgiving Long Term Get Back Combat Wounded Screws Good Day Bad Day Screw Ups Have A Good Day Good Days And Bad Days

Author:Judd Apatow

“In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a verbal agreement, but we both understood that because there was this constant tension between our characters, we couldn't say "Cut" and start acting normal. We had to keep an essence of that relationship in our characters off screen which is really important.”

Important Character Term Acting Cutting Normal Understood Adults Essence Constant Screens Tension Agreement

Author:Asa Butterfield

“In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business. They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with approximately stable intrinsic value, and those with steadily growing intrinsic value. The preference, always, would be to buy a long-term franchise at a substantial discount from growing intrinsic value.”

Long Would Be Values Three Term Growing Essence Long Term Categories Stable Preference Inflation Shrinking Discounts Intrinsic Value

Author:Michael Burry

“In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.”

Should Term Objects Photography Essence

Author:Albert Renger-Patzsch

“The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.”

Ifs Humans Art Sometimes Use Hands Seems Term Lines Brain Design Painting Source Essence Architecture Drawing Branches Sculpture Human Brain

Author:Michelangelo

“Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.”

Men Made Government Names Term Democracy Modern Changed He Man Ordinary Essence Absolutes Criminals One Man Anarchy Governors Aggression Invasion Another Man Monarchs Invaders Aggressors

Author:Benjamin Tucker

“I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.”

Believe Long Home I Believe Term Ability Design Integrity Essence Classic Long Term Good Design Captivating

Author:Candice Olson

“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.”

World Needs Long Self Hard Moving Fighting Term Interest Wealth Environment Greater This World Capitalism Essence Threat Long Term Sanity Short Term Self Interest Greater Good Personal Wealth

Author:Paul Polman

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