Quotes About Essence

The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement, that publication's brand will be weak. A good publication is a convener and an arbiter - it expresses a core narrative that becomes a badge of sorts for its readership.

I don't like them with 55 toppings. I like burgers how I like my pizza: plain and simple.

Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.'

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

For me, beauty really does come from within, and that may sound cliche, but it's true.

We're getting closer to our nature.

The essence of my coaching is to serve.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of drag. It is gender performance. Being able to produce a performance is what a superstar has to do.

Did you hear what you just said?" I say. "That's exactly where your originality lies. In each bone of your body." I go on to explain the root of originality: origin. Origin, as in source, spring, primary being. We are most original when we are most ourselves. Only then are we close to our first source, our fueling passions. Discovering

She means like - we're here to be here. To live. that's why you lived, Bridge. You lived to live. Just like everyone else.

Sometimes, we forget the essence of parenting is really about nurturing critical connections that affect every child's future.