Essentials Quotes - Page 24

• With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that trust in leaders is low and nonetheless, organizations role along quite nicely.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Organization, People, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.

  Zac Posen

  Stars, Self, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.

  Edward Said

  Islamic, Oil, Roots

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.

  Marianne Williamson

  Drama, Believe, Order

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.

  Zoe Kazan

  Numbers, Mind, Knows

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.

  Brian McKnight

  Meaningful, Used, Disposable

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.

  Alexis Taylor

  Letting Go, Song, Hot

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.

  Beck

  Believe, Years, People

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I didn't feel like it was essential to have a white host or a black host, I wanted a good host.

  Harvey Levin

  White, Black, Host

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.

  Charles R. Morris

  Military, British Navy, Raw Materials

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

  Rokia Traore

  Song, Long, Important

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage.

  Rokia Traore

  Age, Kind, Knows

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• Dreams are self-created, but dreamers often do not understand the images that their own minds produce. Therein lays the essential paradox of dreams; dreams reveal that we all possess subconscious ability. Furthermore, our subconscious mind, as it is revealed through dreams, proves itself to be talented, artistic, insightful, perceptive and intelligent.

  Charles McPhee

  Dream, Intelligent, Self

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Trying, Stories, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For interests that are vital to the U.S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing - the U.S. should be prepared to use military force - including unilaterally, if necessary.

  Graham T. Allison

  Military, Survival, Use

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.

  Mike Berenstain

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Important, Vitamins, Tribes

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you are mentored it inspires a generosity in you to mentor others and that I know is what happened with me, so for instance, the people that come through my studio to work for me, it's not good enough for me to just give them a paycheck.

  Carol Friedman

  Thinking, People, Generosity

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.

  Marion Dudley Cran

  Garden, Doors, Firsts

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• A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Men, Garden, Artist

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• As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.

  Jim Nollman

  Humility, Garden, Compassion

  Jim Nollman (2005). “Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place”, p.104, Sentient Publications

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• Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else

  Randy Thom

  Mixing, Moments

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• It is a very strong rule in drama, and in life, that people remain true to their basic natures. They change, and their change is essential for drama, but typically they only change a little, taking a single step towards integrating a forgotten or rejected quality into their natures.

  Christopher Vogler

  Strong, Drama, People

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• Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.

  Mirabel Osler

  Garden, People, Individuality

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• Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Stress, Relax, Each Day

  Judith Hanson Lasater (2016). “Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times”, Shambhala Publications

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