Home / Topics / Essentials Quotes

Essentials Quotes

Browse 3425 quotes about Essentials.

Essentials Quotes

“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.”

World Art Seems Chance Roles Plans Mystery Balance Limits Essentials Surprise Operations Recognizing Calculations Paradoxical Collaborating Unforeseen

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan”

Writing Plans Essentials Business Plan

Author:Steve Blank

“Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.”

Plans Battle Essentials Useless Preparing

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.”

People Ifs Needs Humans Stills Matter Perfect Plans One Thing Products Essentials Marketing Productions Factors Endeavor

Author:Bill Gates

“The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.”

Knows World Father Plans Listening Walking Essentials Guidelines Walking With God Listening To God

Author:Charles Stanley

“But I do think that, when you slow the conveyor belt down, the quality control tends to go up. You have a lot more time between seasons to talk about what worked and what didn't work, and plan for the future. And the pacing of the storytelling, particularly for on-going serialized dramas, means that you don't need to do non-essential episodes, just because you have to fill this pre-existing schedule.”

Thinking Needs Mean Quality Plans Drama Essentials Seasons Storytelling More Time Episodes Schedules Belts Pacing Quality Control

Author:Damon Lindelof

“The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.”

People Want Asks Father Community Responsibility Plans Divine Essentials Majority Worthy Planning Explanation Enjoyment Day To Day Assurance Flocks Backbone Trust Worthy

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”

Littles Plans Essentials Importance Planning

Author:Winston Churchill

“I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him." -Katniss Everdeen”

Knows Years Has Beens Two Hours Know How Knowing Plans Essentials Two Things Goodbye Katniss

Author:Suzanne Collins

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations