Essence Quotes - page 9

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description! (Alfred Binet)
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. View quote
Kate Millett
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. View quote
Denis Waitley
The Essence of War is Violence. Moderation in War is Imbecility. View quote
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
The essence of the Way is detachment. View quote
Bodhidharma
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion. View quote
Bodhidharma
I'm apt to get drunk on words... Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience. View quote
Patricia MacLachlan
Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time. View quote
Lee Smolin
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions. (Valentina Tereshkova)
Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder. Yet in essence, that is what you have asked our loved ones to do, through an ill-contrived and totally naive campaign against the Second Amendment. View quote
Charlton Heston
The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant. View quote
Kim Jong-un
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. View quote
Alexander Theroux
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention. View quote
Bill Bruford
It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed. View quote
Bill Sienkiewicz
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome. View quote
Cai Guo-Qiang
Listening is the essence of anything. View quote
David Lyons
The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles. View quote
Dee Wallace
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear. View quote
Ellen Hopkins
Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it. (Emmanuelle Riva)
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort. View quote
Edward Bach
For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it. View quote
Graeme Murphy
A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own. View quote
Gary David Goldberg
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. View quote
Henry Fuseli