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Quotes About Essential

You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
~ Walter Isaacson
As a result, the process of designing a product at Apple was integrally related to how it would be engineered and manufactured. Ive described one of Apple's Power Macs. "We wanted to get rid of anything other than what was absolutely essential," he said. "To do so required total collaboration between the designers, the product developers, the engineers, and the manufacturing
~ Walter Isaacson
This biography is essential reading." —The New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide "A superbly told story of a superbly lived life.
~ Walter Isaacson
We wanted to get rid of anything other than what was absolutely essential," he said. "To do so required total collaboration between the designers, the product developers, the engineers, and the manufacturing team. We kept going back to the beginning, again and again. Do we need that part? Can we get it to perform the function of the other four parts?
~ Walter Isaacson
Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly," Pestalozzi wrote, and "the learning of numbers and language must be definitely subordinated." 58
~ Walter Isaacson
Es absolutamente imprescindible que tengamos un encuentro con la autoridad de Dios y que poseamos un conocimiento básico de lo que ella es.
~ Watchman Nee
allow that essential center of pure love to activate your unique usefulness.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
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.
~ Charles Kennedy
But just as the capacity to forget is a gift of grace, so memory, the recalling of the lessons we have learnt, is an essential element in responsible living." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON
~ Charles R. Ringma
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
~ Charles Scribner, Jr.
It's not the bad ideas that do you in, it's the good ideas. And you may say, 'That can't be so. That's paradoxical. What he [Graham] meant was that if a thing is a bad idea, it's hard to overdo. But where there is a good idea with a core of essential and important truth, you can't ignore it. And then it's so easy to overdo it. So the good ideas are a wonderful way to suffer terribly if you overdo them
~ Charles T. Munger
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it and that it's not crazy to fear you'll never have it again, even though your fears are probably wrong. Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Acceptance has everything to do with simplicity, with sitting in the ordinary place, with bearing witness to the plain facts of our life, with not just starting at the essential, but ending up there.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Acceptance has everything to do with simplicity, with sitting in the ordinary place, with bearing witness to the plain facts of our lives, with not just starting at the essential, but ending up there. Acceptance speaks in the gentlest voice. It commands only that we acknowledge what's true.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.
~ Cheryl Strayed
A well-disposed research librarian is a writer's best friend, as essential as ink.
~ Barbara Rogan, Suspicion, 1999
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
~ Adam Smith
Can you do anything more fundamental than to raise food? Even Einstein has to eat.
~ Rex Stout (1886–1975)
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.
~ Piet Mondrian
The hiding of one's essential inner nature is, as we will see, considered to be the ultimate basis of disease and problems in life.
~ Hari Sharma
Public utility must be the first consideration.
~ Harold Bell Wright
The most dangerous enemies of Christianity are not the atheists, but those who claim to be Christians but deny the essential truths of the faith.
~ HAROLD O. J. BROWN