Quotes About Essential

My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

Money goes where it's rewarded. Money goes where it is needed the most.

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

Player safety has been an essential focus for us for a number of years.

Films are like oxygen for me.

A pair of blue jeans is a must. It is the most comfortable outfit anyone can opt for.

Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane

The lover is the one whose heart proclaims, "I had no need of you until I met you, but now I know I always needed you." Or alternatively, "I had no desire for you until I met you, and now I know that I have always desired you.

To feel is to be human. To minimize or deny what we feel is a distortion of what it means to be image bearers of God. To the degree that we are unable to express our emotions, we remain impaired in our ability to love God, others, and ourselves well. Why? Because our feelings are a component of what it means to be made in the image of God. To cut them out of our spirituality is to slice off an essential part of our humanity.

Good parasites are invisible; the best are indispensable. Gut bacteria, chloroplasts, mitochondria: all parasites, once.

I was trying to get a handle on Blindsight; I entertained and discarded any number of adaptive functions in search of that grand thematic punchline that would end the book. Yes, my protagonist would realize, self-awareness is absolutely essential because of X. The problem was, I couldn't find an X that stood up under scrutiny; and it took me far too long to realize that Consciousness is good for nothing at all was the scariest and most existentially gut-churning punchline imaginable.

Good parasites are invisible; the best are indispensable.

Details, when they are successful, are not mere decoration. They do not distract or entertain. They lead to an understanding of the whole of which they are an inherent part.

To have a degree of control over a result two things are essential. First, you must have some influence over the process leading to the result. And second, you must use that influence to impose a relevant direction on the process, helping to ensure that a suitable result transpires.

Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures.

A book's title is vital.

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

I think a sense of humor vital to get through life: It's a great link between people and can be very effective in a getting a point across.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.