Essence Quotes - Page 29

• The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.

  J. B. Jackson

  Numbers, Landscape, Soil

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• You're as good as anybody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• All men are alike when asleep.

  Aristotle

  Men

  Aristotle (2011). “The Eudemian Ethics”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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• We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

  Virginia Satir

  Miracle, Needs

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• We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

  Dalai Lama

  Feelings, Suffering, Trying

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• We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

  Richard Rorty

  Paradise, Individual, Equal

  Richard Rorty (1991). “Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

  Radhanath Swami

  Thinking, Gita, Worship

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• If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Opportunity, Trials

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• The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Race, World

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• We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down.

  Radhanath Swami

  Empowering, Spirituality

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• What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.

  Radhanath Swami

  Blessing, Appreciate, Possibility

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• Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.

  Radhanath Swami

  Forgotten, God Love, Pure Love

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• Speak the essence and live by it.

  Radhanath Swami

  Speak, Live By

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• The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources.

  Walter Russell

  Mean, Goal, Entrepreneur

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• ....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Self, Goal

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.140, Bantam

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• [O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

  Fisher Ames

  Country, Government, Democracy

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• Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.

  Dan Simmons

  Civilization, Ideas, Creative

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• The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

  George Orwell

  Father, Son, Persistence

  "1984".

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• The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

  Richard Restak

  Brain, Function, Gathering Data

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• The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Eye, Men, America

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• The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they are for viewers. . . . Film to me, in its essence, in its ultimate nature, is silent. Music and dialogue are there to fill what is lacking in the image. But you should be able to tell the story with moving pictures alone. For my next project, though, I'd like to make the kind of film where the characters blabber all the time.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Believe, Moving, Character

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• Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

  Hermann Weyl

  Math, Thinking, Human Nature

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• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Ocean, Eye, Order

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• You see more and more why healing is happening through music.
  It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration

  Kenneth G. Mills

  Healing, Men, Reorganization

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