Essentials Quotations | Page 6

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

There is nudity, of course striptease is an essential component of burlesque but it's much more complex and intelligent than a display of nudity for nudity itself. And its often laugh-out-loud funny.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

Make chance essential.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.

In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.

Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.

Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Obviously what I think Senator [John] Kerry was pointing to, which is absolutely correct, which is the essential part of the strategy or a key component or a leg on the stool, is an Afghan partner that is ready to take control of both the security situation in Afghanistan, and the civilian side of that.

Compassion is an essential element of love.

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.

The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used to cross the Atlantic, we've asked British Airways for two of theirs.

Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

A healthy workforce is essential to grow our state and compete in the global marketplace. These actions are important to improve the health security of Iowans by making healthcare more affordable and accessible.

For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, … they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.

We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

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.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation - all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.

Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,

It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

Risk is an essential part of progress.

The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.