Quotes About Essential

In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question "What is this organization's essential mission or purpose and what is its main strategy to accomplish that?

If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear." This is a dangerously narrow conception of the value of privacy. Privacy is an essential human need, and central to our ability to control how we relate to the world. Being stripped of privacy is fundamentally dehumanizing, and it makes no difference whether the surveillance is conducted by an undercover policeman following us around or by a computer algorithm tracking our every move.

It is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!

It's a relief to leave unnecessary things. But do the necessary things have to be so heavy?

That naked childlike surrender, before she rose to assume an adult's armour, seemed first thing this morning like a essential from which she was banished.

Connected communities are fundamental to all aspects of growth and prosperity, and essential to keep our young people and attract others to rural Iowa.

I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.

It's key to know which essential foods will keep you going and help your body recover after hard work.

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

What you need and what you want aren't the same things.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained, gnawing with very sharp teeth.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

In mathematical modeling, as in all of science, we always have to make choices about what to stress and what to ignore. The art of abstraction lies in knowing what is essential and what is minutia, what is signal and what is noise, what is trend and what is wiggle. It's an art because such choices always involve an element of danger; they come close to wishful thinking and intellectual dishonesty.

Yesterday you spoke of prayers to appease your god, and no interference in divine activity. In fact, you reprimanded me. Now, I am essential. Your turns of mind confuse me, Q'orveh.

The worst thing,' she whispered to the cat as she stroked it, 'is not to be useful.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.