Best essentials & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."”

Ifs May Art Reason Would Be Cry Fields Arms Please Essentials Garden Ancient Spread Noble Enthusiasm Lions Gardening Eagles Lilies

Author:Abraham Cowley

“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”

“Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.”

Ifs Causes Study Essentials Accidents

Author:Avicenna

“Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.”

Ifs Essentials Everyday Psychics Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.”

Ifs Kind Littles Different Facts Names Information Essentials Discovery Intuition Maturity Different Kinds Location Sequence

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.”

People Ifs Looks Said Courses Differences Doors Figures Essentials Picks Standing Trade Weather Useless Etc Working It Standing Out Veins Respectable Beggar Livelihood Accountants Bronchitis

Author:George Orwell

“It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it.”

Ifs Should Kind Felt Missing Expression Discipline Essentials Oneself Pleasant Behaviour

Author:Erich Fromm

“Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.”

Ifs Reality Essentials Reflection Mirrors Aim Photograph Caught Drawing Colour Accurate Realism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.”

Ifs Giving Children Form Natural Flower Essentials Complexes Paint Very Good Landscape Get Back Bouquets Cezanne

Book:Robert Motherwell

Source: Robert Motherwell

“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.”

“Some of you may ask, ?Is there a single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments that God has enjoined upon the people, that he will excuse them from obeying?' Not one, no matter how trifling or small in our own estimation. No matter if we esteem them non-essential, or least or last of all the commandments of the house of God, we are under obligation to observe them.”

People Ifs May Matter Lasts Asks House Essentials Excuse Obligation Esteem Commandments Obeying Ordinances Trifling Estimation House Of God

Author:Brigham Young

“Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.”

Ifs World Life Philosophy Action Results Knowledge Life Philosophy Duty Demand Essentials

Author:George Washington Goethals

“If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 ×10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.”

Ifs Way Giving Wells Whole Use Science Energy Common Numbers Equal Essentials Elements Constant Definitions Defined Divided Quantity Distribution Frequency Calculations Dividing Ergs

Author:Max Planck

“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.”

Ifs Believe Doe Two Hands Doubt Essentials Vices Disaster Rational Faculty Vice Versa

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.”

“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.”

Ifs Would Be Pieces Alive Written Worst Poet Essentials Dylan Texture

Author:Randall Jarrell

“If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.”

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe

“Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.”

Ifs Wells Looks I Can Enough Care Expression Essentials Ill Sentiments

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source: Happiness

“The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).”

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.”

“If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.”

Ifs Wells Play Character Together Effects Produce Speech Essentials Finished Tragic Plot Strings Incidents Expressive Diction Playwriting

Book:Poetics

Source: Poetics

“No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.”

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.”

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.”

“The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst.”

Ifs World Real Enough Understanding Interest Economy Worst Essentials Lows Economics Rate Financial Zero Messed Up Interest Rate World Economy Financial System

Author:Paul Krugman

“If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos.”

Ifs Knows Ideas War Soul Spiritual Spirit Values Race Groups Involved Essentials Scientist Chaos Philosopher Supreme Warrior Aliens Honour Heroic Heroism Representatives Offspring

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional changes, especially regarding wage-setting and other aspects of the employment relationship, would be essential if full employment was to be sustained.”

Ifs Would Be Political Turns Economic Essentials Aspect Fundamentals Setting Settings Employment Advent Neoliberalism

Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

“In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.”

Ifs Life Is Growth Essentials Finals Analysis

Author:Carl Jung

“A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true the third would be false. But at the same time all three are essential parts of most theological positions: the theologian it seems, at once must adhere and cannot consistently adhere to all three.”

Ifs Two Seems Would Be Three Evil Position Essentials Thirds Contradiction Consistently Propositions Theologian Theological Omnipotent

Author:J. L. Mackie

“We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.”

Ifs Mean Real Christian Law Forget Exercise Essentials Injustice Neighbor Violent Denial Nonviolence Redress

Author:Philip Berrigan

“A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens Made Fall Asks Walks Essentials Survival Arise Guru Crutches

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.”

Ifs Want Essentials Perfection Aim Excellence Drawbacks

Author:J. R. D. Tata

“If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life livable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Community Essentials Commitment Praise Loyalty Obsolete No Love Basic Things No Commitment

Book:Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

Source: Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

“People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.”

People Ifs Essentials Laughter Crave Acid Amino Acids

Book:Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy

Source: Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy

“My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.”

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.”

Ifs Giving Long Certain Belief Church Fire Essentials Salvation Chains Orthodox Heresy Whips Orthodox Church Whips And Chains

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.”

Ifs Character School Found Water Sea Essentials England Blue Endure Resolution Precision Blue Water

Book:Nelson's History of the war

Source: Nelson's History of the war

“But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Essentials Absolutes Critics Roger Credentials

Author:Gene Siskel

“I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.”

Ifs Political Ability Economy Influence Achieve Essentials Function Independent Institutions Objectives Committees Political Influence

Author:Ben Bernanke

“In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.”

“If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.”

“Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months.”

“One of the things I do tell young women, if they want to pursue a career in acting, is to get good stage training. It is essential to have a good basis in stage technique. You can move into film easily, and acquire more skill and more understanding, but you can't necessarily go the other way around. For women, longevity of career will very much be on stage.”

Ifs Way Want Film Moving Young Understanding Acting Careers Stage Skills Essentials Training Bases Technique Pursue Acquire Longevity Young Women

Author:Kathleen Turner

“It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.”

Ifs Children Christian America Church Essentials Empty England Our Children Sake Obsolete Christian Faith

Author:Ken Ham

“If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.”

Ifs Way Firsts Found Religious Effort Darkness Doubt Wise Childhood Essentials Approach Simplicity Determine Gods Will Thick Impress Simplify Babe Prudent Candor

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Mascara is my daily essential. I pile it on top and bottom lashes during the day. If I'm going out, I'll add the individual Eylure lashes at the outer corners for more drama.”

Ifs Individual Drama Essentials Add Bottom Corners Going Out Lashes Mascara

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.”

Ifs May Doe Rights Expression Essentials Fellows Fundamentals Freedom Of Thought

Book:Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

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