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Quotes About Essential

I decided love was essential. The problem was the timing. Human beings hesitate.
~ Aldous Huxley
In the same way, the reader of a book who happens to be out of tune with the author's prevailing mood will be bored to death by the things that were written with the greatest enthusiasm. Or else, like the far-away correspondent, he may seize on something which for you was not essential, to make it of the core and kernel of the book.
~ Aldous Huxley
in a crisis a man learnt what was real to him and what was unreal; that he became himself, choosing what he really needed.
~ Alec Waugh
To win in the markets, we need to master three essential components of trading: sound psychology, a logical trading system, and an effective risk management plan.
~ Alexander Elder
I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the good of the world is illuminated, it's understood. It is as if one is vouchsafed a vision of some sort, a vision of love, of 'agape', of the essential value of each and every living thing.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
How can we worship God without worshiping Him in vain? How can we instead "offer to God acceptable worship" (Hebrews 12:28)? We must learn an essential part of pursuing Christlikeness—the Spiritual Discipline of biblical worship.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.
~ Donald S. Whitney
To ask whether elements, interconnections, or purposes are most important in a system is to ask an unsystemic question. All are essential. All interact. All have their roles. But the least obvious part of the system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system's behavior.
~ Donella H. Meadows
At any given time, the input that is most important to a system is the one that is most limiting.
~ Donella H. Meadows
In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.
~ Donna Tartt
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
~ Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life
~ Jonas Mekas
I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.
~ George Eastman
Without rain, there would be no life.
~ John Updike
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
~ Parker J. Palmer
The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.
~ Edward Tufte
It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.
~ Charles Comiskey
Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.
~ Pope Francis
It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
~ Bob Goff
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
~ Haruki Murakami
I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.
~ Richard Gere
Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.
~ Madonna Ciccone
no" gets you past emotional issues and trivial issues to essential issues. We want decision-based negotiation, not the emotion-based waste of time known as win-win.
~ Jim Camp