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“I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.”

Want Writing Beautiful Interest Essentials Sake Luxury Indulge Paragraph Beautiful Writing

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.”

Thinking Parent Growing Up Growing Car Listening Essentials Music Is Sitting Listening To Music

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.”

World Wells Kind States Done United Known United States Security Protect Essentials Intention Various Decades Collections Regions Continuing National Security Well Known Surveillance

Author:Colin Powell

“I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.”

Should Art Matter Artist Individual Differences Simple Essentials Abstract Sincere Primitive

Book:Strong opinions

Source: Strong opinions

“I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.”

Thinking Mean Self Essentials Make You Happy

Author:Tom Ford

“I think the issue of women's choice is essential for a woman being able to have their lives - if they cannot control their own bodies by choosing if or when to have a child, then they cannot control their working life or anything around them.”

Ifs Thinking Children Body Able Choices Issues Essentials Working Life

Author:Tavis Smiley

“I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.”

People Ifs Values Comedy Essentials Jokes Surprise Phrases Shock Surprising Shocked Shock Value

Author:George Carlin

“To dwell is to garden.”

House Essentials Garden Gardening

Author:Martin Heidegger

“The essential message of my life is that all of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives. Whether it's a healing, a relationship, a promotion, or whatever form of abundance you want to manifest in your life, you have much more power to be able to manifest it than you might think.”

Thinking Want Seems Might Able Form Life Is Healing Our Lives Missing Essentials Messages Capacity Abundance Manifest Promotion

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.”

Way Cities Our Lives New York Essentials Driving New York City Transportation Taxi Public Transportation

Author:Simi Linton

“Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.”

Way Art Pain Literature Can Do Essentials

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings. Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background - it's very interesting.”

Thinking Helping Culture Interesting Essentials Doctors Scientist Mathematics Musical Backgrounds Very Interesting Schooling Metrics

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Through the years, I have discovered some essential principles in discerning God's will: First, by God's grace, we must be firmly committed to seeking first the Kingdom of God and His glory. Secondly, we must establish a life discipline of renewing our minds in the Word of God. Thirdly, we must seek godly counsel from mature believers. Fourthly, we must watch for signs of God's providence opening doors and closing them. Finally, we should consider the desires of our heart.”

“Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.”

Knows Essentials

Author:Eli Roth

“I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.”

Thinking Writing Differences Essentials Prose Writing Poetry

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Jobs are a key essential in the Budget.They are government's number one priority and the Budget is going to reflect that.”

Government Jobs Numbers Keys Essentials Priorities Budgets

Author:Peter Gutwein

“In order to abide in the love of God it is essential for anger and 'hate' to attain their maximum intensity but be directed against the sin that lives in me, against the evil active in me - in me, not in my brother.”

Christian Hate Order Evil Sin Brother Essentials Active God Love My Brother Orthodox Intensity Maximum

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.”

Interest Realizing Essentials India Oneness

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.”

Sacrifice Essentials Symbols Establishment Deities

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.”

Language Essentials Infatuation English Language Englishmen

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.”

Life Individual Liberty Essentials Interdependence Individual Liberty

Book:Co-operation

Source: Co-operation

“I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.”

Men Believe Matter I Believe Mankind Essentials Unity I Believe In

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.”

Real Spirit Nations Race Essentials Hatred Nationalism

Book:Gandhi on Nehru

Source: Gandhi on Nehru

“His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness”

God Consciousness Essentials Absolutes Sat

Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.”

Prayer Study Essentials Scripture Interpretation Prayerful

Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

“A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.”

Humans Mean Prayer Common Essentials Worship Unity

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.”

Religion Goal Essentials Finals Oneness Realising

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape, a large-sized gorilla. It was in vain that I told myself I was losing my reason: I could entertain not the slightest doubt as to his species. But an encounter with a gorilla on the planet Soror was not the essential outlandishness of the situation. This for me lay in the fact that the ape was correctly dressed, like a man of our world, and above all that he wore his clothes in such an easy manner.”

Men World Reason Facts Lying Games Easy Waiting Animal Emotion Situation Doubt Saws Planets Creatures Essentials Clothes Losing Lays Species Vain Encounters Our World Apes Gorillas

Author:Pierre Boulle

“Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.”

“By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value - it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.”

Should Values Wish Essentials Feminist Abortion Obsolete

Author:Betty Friedan

“Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.”

Values Integrity Essentials All Things Demonstration

Book:Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

Source: Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

“If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.”

Ifs May Reality Spiritual Meditation Risk Awareness Materials Pure Essentials Insight Accidents Makers Freak Defining Spiritual Experience

Author:Deepak Chopra

“All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.”

World Use Speak Watches Technology Television Materials Essentials Computer Program Machines Phones Premises Material World Fax Fax Machines

Author:Deepak Chopra

“A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.”

Spiritual Teacher Teaching Essentials Awakening Spiritual Awakening

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success.”

Persons Whole Purpose Universe Essentials Findings Bases Foundation Fulfilling Emerging Vary Alignment True Success Changes Over Time

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.”

Thinking Writing Mother Essentials Dirt Crawling Twigs

Author:Alice Walker

“You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.”

Pleasure Leader Adventure Huge Directors Essentials Factors Captains

Author:Audrey Tautou

“The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.”

Interesting Essentials Notes Incredibles Exposed Variation Brahms Handel Paganini

Author:Carlo Grante

“To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience.”

Trying Important Audience Comedy Fine Involved Essentials Elements Brave Always Trying Stand Up Comedy

Author:Bill Maher

“Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations.”

“Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.”

Social Justice Essentials Universal Social Justice Owners

Author:Arthur Henderson

“I never got really into Twitter until more recently when I started doing the Dirt Nasty thing, and created that other character. I think it's almost essential now. I don't think Leonardo DiCaprio necessarily needs to do it, but someone like me, who's somewhere in the middle of nowhere and a shitstack, I need to do that.”

Thinking Needs Character Middle Essentials Like Me Dirt Nasty Leonardo Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Simon Rex

“Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.”

Long Lines Essentials Pages Titles Length Verses

Author:Kiki Dimoula

“I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.”

Thinking Knows Humans Persons Self Fall Conditions Essentials Victim Fascinated Human Condition Relatable Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Kit Williamson

“Come back down to basics. The basic things of life, the basic things for me are the things that turn me on more than anything. I'm actually trying to go back from where I was running from...the more essential things that I was ignoring.”

Trying Running Turns Essentials Basics Turn Me Basic Things

Author:Richard Ashcroft

“You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane life. Language permeates all of life, of course, and one's mind is essential to it, but that does not mean intellectuality should transcend all of life.”

Should Mind Mean Doe Order Courses Language Exercise Essentials Intellect Humane

Author:Talal Asad

“The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.”

Thinking World Character Modern Dangerous Danger Expression Essentials Modern World Transcendence Propensity

Author:Talal Asad

“People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.”

People Should Mind Heart Soul Country Powerful Essentials Tolerance Thrive Persuasion Faith Based

Author:Barack Obama

“We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.”

Winning Battle Essentials Criticism Islam Criticize Ideological

Author:Ibn Warraq

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