Best essentials & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.”

People Past Individual Essentials Perception

Author:Clement Freud

“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.”

“A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.”

Real Past Economy Activity Essentials Financial Decades Features Operations Transactions Financial Services

Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present”

Reason Today Past Artist Values Pleasure Interesting Quality Painting Essentials Concern Historical Dues Manners Representation Historical Value

Book:The Painters of Modern Life

Source: The Painters of Modern Life

“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.”

Writing Past Wish Felt Cases Source Ten Essentials Originals Oneself Nine

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.”

Reason Past Science Modern Essentials Ingredients Survived Modern Science

Book:Against Method

Source: Against Method

“Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.”

Today Past Results Common Generations Ignorance Communication Essentials Destruction Responsible Forgiving Environmental Dialogue Ethical Examination Confrontation Pivotal Environmental Destruction

Author:Dalai Lama

“Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.”

Men Writing Has Beens Made Past Activity Essentials Late Training Too Late My Past

Book:Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays

Source: Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays

“In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.”

World Jobs Past Creativity Security Essentials Employment Luxury Fulfillment Lifelong Personal Security

Book:Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

“I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.”

Believe Past Essentials Unspeakable

Author:Joshua Oppenheimer

“I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.”

Moments Past Spirit Force Essentials Present Moment Pulling Our Thoughts Past Away

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“Making pasta, cooking pasta and baking bread are two essential ideas to create a little bit of excitement, and you learn the basic, and then evolve it. Flavor the bread, flavor the pasta, go to a fish, go to a meat sauce and take it to another level.”

Littles Two Ideas Past Bits Levels Essentials Little Bit Cooking Fishes Bread Evolve Meat Excitement Flavor Baking Sauce Pasta Baking Bread

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.”

Past Awareness Identity Personality Essentials Establishment Our Past

Author:Haile Selassie

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”

May Doe Art Today Past Order House Perfect Beauty Break Taste Essentials Garden Admire Indifference Admiration Gardening Indifferent Radiant Cottages Radiant Beauty

Author:William Rothenstein

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