Quotes About Essence

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

In that moment, success or failure would lose all relevance. The triumph was in the stance. In the defiance. Because this is the essence of life itself. Human and wild, in that moment we are all the same.

All life is sorcery. In its very essence, the soul is magical, and each process of chemistry, of obeisance and cooperation, of surrender and of struggle—at every scale conceivable—is a consort of sorcery.

We need not assume our universe is in essence "computational," "alive," or even "hierarchically dissipative," only that these computational, organic, and thermodynamic analogies may serve to advance our understanding of processes far more complex than our models.

That's all it was.

fragile. So that to be able to defy a culture which states that 'Thou shalt not touch this,' and to defy that with one's own creative powers is . . . the essence." The essence, of course, of the Hacker Ethic.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Tatrini could see why he'd caused so much trouble in his life. She believed that true beauty was essentually fueled by evil. Almorante had loved him, as had Bayard, in his peculiar way, and also Khaster Leckery. Now, it appeared, Valraven Palindrake had been visiting Tayven in captivity. Was this another lovelorn victim? If Bayard possessed half of Tayven's essence, he would be an indomitable force, but that perhaps was not a desirable circumstance.

Behold! For this is his blood, within which dwells the light of truth!

He has become the victim of violation, raped of his soul essence and personality.

The moment when he realised he was consciousness without form occurred when Ays tried to reach out towards the shrouded face. He had nothing to reach out with, other than pure desire.

At once, the essence of the elements swooped down and rushed into him as a bolt of pure energy. His body jerked backward, but he did not fall. He absorbed the essence, his mouth wide in a rictus of agony.

Azazel has absorbed part of the boy into himself. Therefore, part of Azazel resides within the boy. A small, silent part, but present nonetheless. We pay homage to the residue and draw out the essence of Shemyaza with flesh.

It was a hideous parody of when Taropat had passed his essence to Khaster. Tayven felt the serpent's breath writhing madly within him. Pulses of energy coursed through his flesh. He felt as if his body would burst. He was not strong enough to control it.

Humanity without our presence in their midst, would be like the world without sun or moon.