Quotes About Essentiality

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

The need is necessary.

A hot dog stand isn't a hot dog stand without the hot dogs. You can take away the onions, the relish, the mustard, etc. Some people may not like your toppings-less dogs, but you'd still have a hot dog stand. But you simply cannot have a hot dog stand without any hot dogs.

Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered.

There is no virtue like necessity.

Rule 5. Know What Counts and What Doesn't

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

It's one thing to be the greatest; it's another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.

I exist because I am expendable. In all honesty, it's because if I get hurt, I can be replaced.

Quality fats—fat is also a nutrient, required by the body. Notably, when the essentiality of fats was first discovered, they were called "vitamin F" (Evans et al. 1928). Too bad this nomenclature didn't stick—if it had, it would help remind people that we do need some fat in our diet.

The superfluous is very necessary.

La pesanteur, la nécessité et la valeur sont trois notions intrinsèquement liées : n'est grave que ce qui est nécessaire, n'a de valeur que ce qui pèse.

Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

If all men were perfect, then every individual would be replaceable by anyone else. From the very imperfection of men follows the indispensability and inexchangeability of each individual; for each is imperfect in his own fashion.

Adjectives not susceptible to modifiers are: certain, complete, devoid, empty, entire, essential, everlasting, excellent, external, fatal, final, fundamental, harmless, ideal, immaculate, immortal, impossible, incessant, indestructible, infinite, invaluable, invulnerable, main, omnipotent, perfect, principal, pure, round, simultaneous, square, ultimate, unanimous, unendurable, unique, unspeakable, untouchable, whole, worthless.

Prioritization rescues people from the quicksand of decision angst, and that's why finding the core is so valuable.

Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

If the skill is easily automated, it wasn't essential.