Essential Quotes - page 64

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young. (Jhumpa Lahiri)
The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit. View quote
Ed Koch
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. View quote
Diane Ackerman
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions. View quote
Diane Ackerman
Symbols are essential to comprehensive argument. View quote
Benjamin Peirce
If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential. View quote
J. R. D. Tata
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. View quote
Lewis Mumford
He turned then to Job, again using the King James's version. The translation from the Hebrew was narrower than the Greek but seemed more essential. It was the simple strong prose of men who believed and who were unafraid to name things. View quote
Alan Judd
Many pressing problems facing science and society are inherently geospatial – location matters. The availability of essential geospatial data has increased dramatically over the past decade. Both scientific progress and application of geospatial information to societal needs remains hampered, however, due to the lack of methods for transforming these data into information and for combining information from diverse sources to construct knowledge. Progress requires fundamental breakthroughs in both geovisualization and its integration with other methods for geospatial knowledge construction. The research agenda delineated in this issue is a step toward achieving these breakthroughs. Identifying the challenges is the easy part. Meeting them is unlikely without a commitment to a coordinated approach, by both individuals and organizations in multiple countries. View quote
Alan MacEachren
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. (Josiah Royce)
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty. View quote
Vitruvius
There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies. View quote
Alfred Whitney Griswold
The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on. View quote
Milton Friedman
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands. View quote
André Gide
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential. View quote
Arsène Wenger
Whether talking about addiction, taxation on cigarettes or education about smoking, there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum How come we8217re selling this deadly stuff anyway. View quote
Anna Quindlen
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential. (Dick Cheney)
Dissent is a legitimate and essential right in any democracy and modern politicians must accept this fact with tolerance. A sense of proportion - and a sense of humour - is a sign of strength, not a sign of weakness. View quote
Sting (musician)
I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life. View quote
Richard Gere
So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real. View quote
Gillian Anderson
Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women. View quote
Dan Quayle