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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want. -- Robert Collier
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. -- Harold Wilson
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. -- Thomas A. Edison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -- Joseph Addison
Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan -- Steve Blank
According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land. -- Yukio Mishima
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential. -- Arsene Wenger
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. -- Lin Yutang
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. -- Meryl Streep
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. -- Edwin Land
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. -- Edward Hopper
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. -- Nadia Boulanger
I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter. -- David Duchovny
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. -- Nicholas M. Butler
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. -- Robert H. Schuller
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. -- Mose Allison
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. -- John D. Rockefeller
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion. -- Julia Ward Howe
I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials. -- Jean Reno
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. -- Ronald Knox
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. -- Theodore Roosevelt
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. -- Richard Branson
My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. -- Pierre de Coubertin
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. -- James Whitcomb Riley
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. -- Noam Chomsky
Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way. -- Tom Wolfe
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. -- Emile M. Cioran
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. -- Lin Yutang
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. -- Stewart Alsop
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. -- Stewart Alsop
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth. -- Ed Asner
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. -- John D. Rockefeller
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. -- Donna Tartt
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential. -- Richard G. Scott
A great Dermalogica facial every few weeks, and lots of sleep over the weekend are essentials. I also drink lots of water which really helps to hydrate the skin and keep it looking fresh. -- Poppy Delevingne
So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. -- Jenny Holzer
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. -- Marc Bloch
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play. -- Sam Shepard
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. -- Avicenna
I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began. -- Kurt Sutter
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials. -- Wale
My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life. -- Tamara Ecclestone
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials -- Jean Rhys
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials. -- Ezra Pound
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. -- Emma Goldman
In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity. -- Rupertus Meldenius
Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity. -- Philipp Melanchthon
On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity. -- Jack Hyles
The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion. -- G. Campbell Morgan
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. -- Virginia Woolf
The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. -- Earle Birney
In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love. -- Greg Laurie
All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials. -- Adolf Hitler
For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials. -- Bernd Heinrich
Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left. -- Alex Toth
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high. -- Aristophanes
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. -- Henri Matisse
Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love. -- Swami Vivekananda
To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government. -- Calvin Coolidge
Make your learning abundant and speak of it with precision, then you will speak of essentials. -- Mencius
The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society. -- James Gobbo
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -- allan chaimers
Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet. -- Alfred Thayer Mahan
Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended. -- Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky. -- Beryl Bainbridge
When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance. -- Dwight Edwards
Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous! -- Nelson Rodrigues
In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep. -- Antonio Banderas
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. -- Katherine Anne Porter
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world. -- Arthur Henderson
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -- George Washington Burnap
It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity. -- Narendra Modi
Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials. -- Eli Roth
The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration. -- Swami Vivekananda
I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive? -- Rick Warren
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. -- May Sarton
Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line. -- Carlos Slim
I think the most important thing is - I always liked help with feeding essentials like breastfeeding stuff, because it's really tricky. -- Kim Kardashian
Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mammals require three essentials in life, identity, stimulation, and security, and by far the most important of these three psychological cornerstones is identity. -- David Sheldrick
The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being. -- Eknath Easwaran
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance. -- Josephine Hart
Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials? -- Edna Woolman Chase
Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry ... -- Natalie
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine. -- Yann Martel
A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on. -- John Rawls
It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass. -- Marisa Tomei
When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life. -- Antoni Tapies
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges. -- George Orwell
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. -- Rudy Giuliani
Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection. -- Beth Comstock
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense. -- Albert Einstein
The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you. -- Albert Einstein
Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth. -- Katherine Cecil Thurston
Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement. -- Napoleon Hill
You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials. -- Jomo Kenyatta
You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA. -- Cain Velasquez
I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products. -- Clint Eastwood
It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials. -- Sigfried Giedion
I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage. -- Rokia Traore
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. -- Dorothy Thompson
Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory. -- Douglas MacArthur
The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny. -- Octavia Butler
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity. -- Dieter Rams
Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery. -- Sara Genn
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine. -- Albert Pike

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