Quotes About Essence

I was made exactly the way I was meant to be made in who I am and my personality and the way I was born.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

My wardrobe is minimalistic.

Lucknow is a bustling city with warm, friendly people. 'Gulabo Sitabo' is the essence of this city.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Every movie has the thing it's about, and then, deep down, it has this thing that it's really about. 'Star Wars' is not really about a space opera, action, and the galactic quest. It's about self-doubt.

If you have a personality, you're a person.

But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?" "I'm not human," he said. "I don't require a reason to live. Living is my default condition." I couldn't help it; I laughed, and tears welled in my eyes. That answer was quintessentially Orma, distilled to his elemental Orma-ness.

You were naming my life, which is similar but not identical to saving. We name something to make it real, to give it meaning. You can name my life and I might still die. Those aren't mutually exclusive.

Belief was uniquely human.

The thing about songwriting," John Dogg was saying to someone, "is that you can address things obliquely, but no matter. You can't get away from the content that is the essence of the form. All songs are about unrequited love." "Except 'Green Onions,' " Ronnie said. "Which isn't about love at all.

Are we, perhaps, here just for saying: House.Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Jug, Fruit tree, Window,—possibly: Pillar, Tower?

the essence of a reliable and stable military lay in a contented peasantry.