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“The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.”

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Book:The Mask of Apollo

Source: The Mask of Apollo

“The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.”

Values Taste Essence Good Taste Pivotal Good Living

Book:Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

“But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.”

Values Fine Personality Essence Fraud Vapor Insincerity Falseness

Book:I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated

Source: I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated

“I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.”

Believe Lying Values Humanity I Believe Essence Innovation Diligence Value Of Life True Value

Author:Sheikh Abdullah

“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.”

Age Today Values Grows Enemy Plans Worst Essence Aging Threat Old Age Saving Earning Inflation Savings Sap Financing

Author:Bernard Baruch

“If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.”

“We underestimate the value of patience. It is possible that people might sometimes interrupt our meditation sessions or Dharma study, but they can never take away our opportunity to train in inner virtues such as patience. It is this mental training, rather than outer virtuous activities, that is the essence of Dharma practice.”

People Sometimes Might Values Opportunity Practice Virtue Study Meditation Activity Training Essence Train Virtuous Underestimate Session Dharma

Author:Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“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

“This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.”

Knows World Want Values Simple Common Talking Citizens Truth Is Diversity Messages Essence Fellows Who You Are Simple Truths

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.”

Important Ends Values Position Essence Titles The End Of The Day Comes And Goes

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”

Persons Values Ability Essence Selling Impulse Self Control Self Mastery Subordinates Proactive 7 Habits Discipline And Self Control Impulse Control

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.”

Humans Mean Values Culture Existence Pure Essence Employment Human Life Bigotry Concrete Justification Worthless Justified Dehumanization

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.”

People Might Values Vision Essence Harder Clarity Pushing Rope 7 Habits

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.”

Ifs Want Should Would Be Values Existence Essence Mere Bored Boredom Possessed Craving Intrinsic Value

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

“I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand”

Thinking World Whole Values Bits Planets Grew Essence Deeds Tiny Whole World Sand Grain My Thoughts Grains Of Sand Mildew

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth”

Men Mind Persons Earth Joy Values Fighting Knowing Virtue Pride Morality Battle Goodness Achievement Essence Absolutes Rational Certainty Sovereign Grandeur Radiant Rectitude

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. By training you in attacks and defenses it refines your body and your soul and helps you make the spiritual essence of Judo a part of your very being. In this way you are able to perfect yourself and contribute something of value to the world. This is the final goal of Judo discipline.”

World Way Soul Helping Use Body Able Spiritual Values Goal Perfect Discipline Training Essence Finals Defense Your Body Your Soul Judo Spiritual Strength

Author:Kano Jigoro

“During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.”

Should Motivational Values Change Changed Periods Survival Essence Familiar Willingness Abandoned Sensitivity Adaptation

Author:Peter Drucker

“The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.”

Heart Soul Care Values Community Share Essence Heart And Soul Monetary

Author:Dee Hock

“For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.”

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Author:Stewart Udall

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.”

People Persons Feelings Values Ability Vision Environment Conditions Circumstances Essence Driven Impulse Subordinates Selected Proactive 7 Habits

Book:The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

“For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.”