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Quotes About Essential

There is a kinship between the concepts of nature and radical contingency.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
There is a ti,e inherent to Nature. This time, in Whitehead, is inherent to the things, it embaces us, to the extent that we participate in the things, or that we take part in the process of Nature. It is essential for us, but insofar as we are Nature. Subjectivity is caught up in the system of a cosmic time, in a subjectivity of Nature.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1. Nature possesses a temporal character: it passes, like time. 2. Nature is only ever process: we only ever grasp it in its manifestations, without these manifestations ever exhausting it. 3. It is essential for Nature to pass. There is not Nature on the one hand, and its process as attribute on the other. Nature is pure process. It is comparable to the being of a wave, the reality of which is only global and not fragmentary.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
What there are, are totalities that 1) are not a fortuitous gathering of parts, 2) are not prior to all causal conditions. The totalities are exactly as perception offers them: imperfect and incomplete or less perfect totalities...Gestalten...The thing is...a hollow plenitude: presence, but absence. Its content is infinite, it is essential to it to present itself through adumbrations, therefore always to be beyond.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.
~ Max Baucus
It is precisely the essential feature of egoism that it does not apprehend the full value of the isolated self. The egoist sees himself only with regard to the others, as a member of society who wishes to possess and acquire more than the others. Self-directedness or other-directedness have no essential bearing on the specific quality of love or hatred. These acts are different in themselves, quite independently of their direction
~ Max Scheler
And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?
~ Meg Wolitzer
Try not to mention more than three or four characters unless they're vital to the story. If you can't hook them with four characters you won't be able to do it with five or six.
~ Unknown
You therefore should start right away to identify those whose support is essential for your success, and to figure out how to line them up on your side.
~ Unknown
The challenge of developing or reestablishing a clear strategy is often primarily an organizational one and depends on leadership. With so many forces at work against making choices and tradeoffs in organizations, a clear intellectual framework to guide strategy is a necessary counterweight. Moreover, strong leaders willing to make choices are essential. In
~ Michael E. Porter
One of the essential tasks in industry analysis is to distinguish temporary or cyclical changes from structural changes. P.29
~ Michael E. Porter
Hermits of ancient China had understood that wu wei, "non-doing," was an essential part of life, and Knight believes there isn't nearly enough nothing in the world anymore.
~ Michael Finkel
The late Andrew Breitbart saw this as essential, writing, "The left does not win its battles in debate. It doesn't have to. In the twenty-first century, media is everything. The left wins because it controls the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media. The left is the media. Narrative is everything. I call it the Democrat-media complex.
~ Unknown
Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
~ Michael Oxley
I buy onions every time I'm in the grocery store, not because I need them, but because I fear not having an onion when I do need it. Not having an onion in the kitchen is like working with a missing limb.
~ Michael Ruhlman
Aristotle tells us that the plot should be so tight that if you took away any one incident, the whole would literally collapse:
~ Unknown
The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.
~ Michel Faber
À quoi bon installer la 5G si l'on n'arrivait simplement plus à rentrer en contact, et à accomplir les gestes essentiels, ceux qui permettent à l'espèce humaine de se reproduire, ceux qui permettent aussi, parfois, d'être heureux ?
~ Michel Houellebecq
Les livres sont indispensables. La littérature est l'oxygène de l'âme.
~ Michel Tournier
Getting those rights is essential. But, as Kenji Yoshino notes in his discussing of covering, winning rights is only one part of the battle. To keep them, we have to change the culture, and that means resisting the demand that we cover and conform.
~ Unknown
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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~ Unknown
Goethe wrote, "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."[15] That's true in every area of life—including our relationships.
~ Unknown