Best essence & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“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

“The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in Yemen and the Saudis were supposed to be dealing with the Houthis, who started out in essence along their border. So one of the things that we’re seeing is a complete failure of Saudi policy toward Yemen over the past 10 years, but the Saudis totally believe that the reason the Houthis are able to succeed militarily is the amount of money, advice, and guns they are receiving from Iran.”

Thinking Years Believe Has Beens Said Reason Able Past Seeing Advice Policy Movement Amount Succeed Gun Essence Blame Supposed To Be Borders Iran Grants Receiving Over The Past Saudis Yemen

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.”

Thinking Trying Self Hard Conscious Essence Uniqueness Glamour Self Conscious Trying Really Hard

Book:Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist

Source: Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist

“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.”

Thinking World Kind Doe Made Certain Individual Views Responsibility Known Fate Impossible Depends Ethics Conscience Essence Excuse Point Of View Ethical Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Gyorgy Lukacs

“But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don't think it would affect retailers. Besides, that's part of the joy of Christmas - to give someone a gift to show your appreciation for them.”

Thinking Giving Shows Joy Failing Essence Appreciation Christmas Buying Retailers Christmas Joy

Author:Mathew Staver

“The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.”

Thinking Doe Ideas Waiting Mistake Humorous Essence Oneself Details Copies New Ideas My Mistakes Life Mistakes

Book:Classic Aubrey Menen: Complete and Unabridged

Source: Classic Aubrey Menen: Complete and Unabridged

“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

“Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.”

Source: Living Faith

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.”

Thinking Giving Winning Individual Nations Community Challenges Accepting Successful Greater Revolution Depends Lessons Essence Structure I've Learned

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.”

Thinking Humans Speak Kindness Grace Essence Lays Humanism Saving Emphasis Human Kindness Saving Grace

Author:Michael Dirda

“Money is like a canvas or a shape shifter. It's like whatever you project on that canvas, that's what money is for you. Really, in its essence it's power. Most people relate to money the way they relate to power. They either think other people have it, and they don't and they're mad about it, or they feel fearful of it like having it would be a burden or a responsibility.”

People Thinking Way Feels Would Be Responsibility Shapes Projects Essence Mad Burden Relate Fearful Canvas

Author:Tony Robbins

“For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.”

Thinking Years Important Character Life Is Actors Found Acting Personality Healthy Essence Multiple Inviting Bipolar Multiple Personalities

Author:Sally Field

“Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.”

Thinking Mind Meditation Essence Gaps

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

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

“I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.”

People Thinking Doe Important Film Courses Stage Essence Productions Collaboration

Author:Julie Andrews

“If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Hard Three Games Winning Player Team Football Essence Eight Extras Trust Me

Author:Alex Ferguson

“When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.”

People Thinking Want Love Mean Important Christian Love Is Essence Conception Want U God Is Love

Book:The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific.”

Ifs Thinking Children Care Mother Motivation Women Powerful Compassion Greater Essence Encouragement Our Children Warmth Pacific Expanse

Author:Louise Burfitt-Dons

“Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.”

Thinking Needs Sports Team Football Basketball Essence Baseball Seasons Hockey Defining Parity

Author:Michael Wilbon

“I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.”

Ifs Thinking Men I Can Hands Feet Taught Essence I Can Read

Book:Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

Source: Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

“the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.”

“I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.”

Thinking Imagination Family Capacity Essence Agree Loyalty

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)”

Thinking Men Needs Trying Two Reason Play Goal Wealth Roles Hair Ambition Empty Essence Oneself Riches Pursuit Emptiness Latter Mask Scent Trails Live It Up

Author:African Spir

“Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.”

Thinking Wells Reason Use Easy Fields Computer Tools Essence Instruments Geometry Computer Science Getting Started

Author:Hal Abelson

“We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-quality organisation is people producing results because they want the results. It's puzzling we find that hard to understand, that if people are really enjoying, they'll innovate, they'll take risks, they'll have trust with one another because they are really committed to what they're doing and it's fun”

People Ifs Thinking Want Hard Fun Enjoy Results Quality Risk Essence Management Strategy Committed Traditional Organisation High Quality Puzzling Producing Results

Author:Peter Senge

“I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.”

Thinking Needs Feels Different Culture Cities Building Essence India Architect Singapore Kansas Arkansas Kansas City

Author:Moshe Safdie

“Soul, to me, means “embodied essence,” when we experience ourselves and others in our full humanity - part animal, part divine. Healing comes through embodiment of the soul. The soul in matter is what I think the feminine side of God is all about... The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality.”

Thinking Mean Soul Matter Humanity Sides Animal Healing Accepting Divine Essence Feminine Totality Embodiment Divine Healing

Author:Marion Woodman

“We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Humans Would Be Water Born Chance Opinion Dying Human Nature Shadow Weak Essence Thoughtful Uncertain Vague Participation Clutch Midway

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of what's so fun for, I think, many people when they first start to want to be an actor, is that they realise they enjoy making up a world around them to exist in, a whole situation and a whole way of being. And even more so than theatre, animation requires that because there's just nothing to go on. It's in your head and your heart or it's not there at all.”

People Thinking World Way Want Firsts Heart Whole Actors Left Fun Enjoy Imagination Situation Goes On Essence Theatre Realising Animation Making Up

Author:Jim Parsons

“Space really means the level of awareness or presence, not thinking. So, can you look at your partner and not think? Two conscious beings realize that the essence of the relationship is the space in it. Even when there is an egoic overlay, it is not too dense or heavy for you to sense the essence underneath it. You don't need to react to the egoic overlay. When you don't react to it you don't strengthen it.”

Thinking Needs Looks Mean Two Realizing Space Levels Awareness Conscious Essence Heavy Partners Being Real Really Mean Dense

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.”

Thinking Mankind Essence Superstitions Refuge

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.”

“One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that - think of all the wars we would have missed!”

People Thinking Men War Use America Imagine Land Divine Essence Medicine Plant Native Fascinating Bags Imagine That Tribes Acquisition North America

Author:Maryrose Wood

“I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.”

Thinking Made Past Social Common Rocks Essence Structure Made It Fixed Rock N Roll Monotheism Social Structure

Author:Ezra Furman

“Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.”

“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.”

“The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last resolve love is the essence of God's nature. When he thinks, love is his thought; when he wills, love is the product of his will. To the degree, therefore, that man thinks and wills the good--to the degree that he realizes love in his finite dealings--he interfuses himself with God.”

Thinking Men Lasts Realizing Perfect Love Is Common Products Activity Degrees Essence Motive Resolve Finite Common Ground Dealings Perfect Love

Author:Frank C. Lockwood

“My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.”

Thinking Heart Father Prayer Powerful Friends Praying My Friends Essence Most Powerful Helpless Helplessness

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“The essence of Reality TV is all about drama. So, I think bringing pressure is healthy whether it's a professional chef or a domestic chef. Because the only way ever to really identify the true purpose of how good they are is submerging them under pressure. So I say it's no different than a live football game because it's about the intensity.”

Thinking Way Different Reality Purpose Games Football Tvs Healthy Drama Essence Pressure Intensity Chef Reality Tv Football Game Under Pressure True Purpose

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.”

People Thinking Today Political Issues Changed Jokes Essence Surprise Currents Related Brutal Kim

Author:Bette Midler

“His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that a benevolent response in all circumstances will be the most healing one. I think he is so universally admired becuase he exemplifies by his behavior the truth that the essence of natural mind, unclouded by greed or anger or delusion, is that of peace.”

Thinking Mind Order Peace Understanding Natural Healing Circumstances Behavior Essence Response Greed Delusion Sensible Precise Benevolent

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.”

“Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Seems Names Waiting Knowing Trouble Sitting Essence Tolerance Block Not Knowing Uncertain Abiding Blocked Writer's Block

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.”

Thinking Soul Action Understanding Willing Essence Reasoning

Author:Akhenaton

“I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.”

Thinking Looks Children Art Important Done Able Pieces Essence Capture Requirements

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“People think this is all about the top players hitting tenins balls and they talk about technique and strategy and how important that is. But they don't understand the essence of competition. This is one-on-one, two players out there fighting each other with everything they have, trying to bring the best out of themselves. And the difference at this level of the game is all in the head and in the heart.”

People Thinking Trying Heart Two Important Fighting Games Differences Levels Player Essence Balls Strategy Competition Technique Hitting One On One Fighting Each Other

Author:John Newcombe

“Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.”

Thinking Giving Trying Problem Pain Essence Excuse Humorists

Author:Dave Barry

“Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Kind Used Behinds Pieces Essence Clever All Kinds Code Dirty Interfaces

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.”

People Thinking Knows Feels I Can Facts Stories Running Memories Heard Events Wall Essence Average Isolation I Have Learned Incapable Superficial My Thoughts Every Second Unbroken No Memory

Author:Franz Kafka

“I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion. I believe we are all created in the image of God, in fact, we are all God, or at one with God, at our deepest core essence. I think "infidel" refers to one who does not believe that God is none other than the Self. The "infidel" is the individual personality who identifies with the body and thoughts and not the Divine Indweller. Therefore we are all "infidels" save the sacred few who have transcended the notion of the limited self. The ancient mystics of all tradtitions have said this.”

Thinking Believe Doe Said Self Facts Body Individual I Believe Divine Particular Personality Essence Sacred Notion Ancient Core God Image Infidel Individual Personality

Author:Todd Rundgren

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