Quotes About Essential

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

The sense of popularity in an actor is essential.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.

I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.

I think center is a critical position.

Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

I want to play roles where my absence should be felt. It may not necessarily be a lead role, but my character should be crucial to the show.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

Things that matter most Must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

It is easy to imagine grief as an ennobling, purifying emotion—uncluttering the mind of what is petty and transient, and illuminating the essential. In reality, of course, grief doesn't resolve anything, any more than a blow to the head or a devastating illness. It compounds stress and complication. It multiplies anxiety and tension. It opens fissures into cracks, and cracks into gaping chasms.

Generalization can allow us to reduce a problem to something more essential, resulting in an approach that embodies regularity across known examples, a regularity that is crisp, concise, and well grounded. However, too often generalization becomes a work item in itself, pulling in the opposite direction, adding to the complexity rather than reducing it.

Rule 5. Know What Counts and What Doesn't

Writing is essential to learning. One cannot be educated and yet unable to communicate one's ideas in written form.

Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.