Quotes About Essence

During the inception of 'Zindagi Gulzar Hai,' we studied the characters and the script in depth so that we could imbibe the essence of it in our performance.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form - a very learnable art form.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

The body is the substance of the stone.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Substance must itself be said of the modes and only of the modes.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

I'm not about sound bites. I'm about substance.

I like men of substance.

I don't look at the length of the role, but yes I'm looking for substance.

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

Real solutions are discovered only where they actually exist Within the individual's own essence.

Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, perhaps, would be a few words that only he would deem significant, or an angle of a face, which in turn his mind would link with other things, some oddity of accent, or some other words confusing time and place and people to look for a pattern, some essence.

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

When an idea is preserved, isn't its form unimportant.

Essential oils are like little packages of positivity.

The true poem rests between the words.

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