Essence Quotes - Page 7

• The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Religion, Different

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Transcendentalism, Painting

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• Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

  William Hazlitt

  Prejudice, World, Transcendentalism

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Loneliness, Transcendentalism

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• The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Existence precedes and rules essence.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Existence

  L'°tre et le n‚ant (Being and Nothingness, 1943) pt. 4, ch. 1

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• The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

  David Storey

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

  "Home".

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• I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

  Chuck Jones

  Thinking, Drawing, Form

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• 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.

  Kate Millett

  Change, Mean, Repetition

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.507, University of Illinois Press

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• Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soul, Noble, Egoism

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• Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Transcendentalism, Divorced, Objects

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

  Virginia Woolf

  Giving, Mind, Mold

  "The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1918-1924".

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• The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

  James Anthony Froude

  Acceptance, Greatness, Self

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• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Soul, Humans

  Speech in support of the London Library, 24 June 1840, in F. Harrison 'Carlyle and the London Library' (1907) p. 66

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• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Unique, Judging

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1961). “On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Transcendentalism, Terrorism, Danger

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• In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Games, Humiliation

  "The Marvellous Mania: Alistair Cooke on Golf".

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• Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

  Antonio Machado

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Henry Fuseli

  Nature, Ideas, Perfection

  James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.495

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• The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

  Genevieve Bujold

  Honesty, Character, Humanity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

  Andy Roddick

  Sports, Central Park, Parks

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• Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

  Robert Delaunay

  Observation, Indispensable, Luminous

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