Essential Quotes

We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming swarm of human beings, relatives, customers, servants, postmen, afternoon callers, tradesmen, strangers who tell us the time, strangers who remark on the weather, beggars, waiters, and telegraph-boys--instead of this bewildering human swarm which passes us every day, fiction asks us to follow one figure (say the postman) consistently through his ecstasies and agonies. That is what makes one impatient with that type of pessimistic rebel who is always complaining of the narrowness of his life and demanding a larger sphere. Life is too large for us as it is: we have all too many things to attend to. All true romance is an attempt to simplify it, to cut it down to plainer and more pictorial proportions. What dullness there is in our life arises mostly from its rapidity; people pass us too quickly to show us their interesting side. By the end of the week we have talked to a hundred bores; whereas, if we had stuck to one of them, we might have found ourselves talking to a new friend, or a humorist, or a murderer, or a man who had seen a ghost.

G.K. Chesterton

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the case of idiots, with IQs below 20 and the extremest motor incompetence and bewilderment. Their uncouth movements may disappear in a moment with music and dancing—suddenly, with music, they know how to move. We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music—the sequence of movements they cannot hold as schemes being perfectly holdable as music, i.e. embedded in music. The same may be seen, very dramatically, in patients with severe frontal lobe damage and apraxia—an inability to do things, to retain the simplest motor sequences and programmes, even to walk, despite perfectly preserved intelligence in all other ways. This procedural defect, or motor idiocy, as one might call it, which completely defeats any ordinary system of rehabilitative instruction, vanishes at once if music is the instructor. All this, no doubt, is the rationale, or one of the rationales, of work songs.

Oliver Sacks

So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation

Sunday Adelaja

I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom.

Christina Engela

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

Rajib Lochan Dhibar

It takes time, or does time take it?

Anthony Liccione

News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.

Steven Magee

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Idries Shah

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best." -Destruction

Neil Gaiman

In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense

Munia Khan

Prioritize activities under the captions “important” and “urgent”. Do the urgent things first and the important things later.

Israelmore Ayivor

Your choices are very essential; without a better choice, you are risking to drive a destination whose name you know, but address you forget!

Israelmore Ayivor

Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not want to express ends up being the most secret of my secrets. I know that I'm scared of the moments in which I don't use thought and that's a momentary state that is difficult to reach, and which, entirely secret, no longer uses words with which thoughts are produce. Is not using words to lose your identity? is it getting lost in the harmful essential shadows?

Clarice Lispector

I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk.

Steven Magee

You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them

Sunday Adelaja

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof.

T.F. Hodge

To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done, with a clear mind and all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact at that moment, [I was] absolutely horrified that I was capable of doing something like that.

James C. Dobson

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

Dean Koontz

Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue.

T.C. Boyle

Our lives go by in our own minds. The war is inside our heads and only we can return the peace. It is essential to remember that in one sense we are always right. If we say, we can, we can. If we say we cannot, that’s how it is, we cannot.

Mabel Katz

The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.

Israelmore Ayivor

For a thinking man, the main thing is to develop that person within

Sunday Adelaja

Your discovery and realization of your personality for the well-being of humanity is much more essential

Sunday Adelaja

Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human’s destination

Sunday Adelaja

It is essential to check the quality of work carried out or people let you down

Sunday Adelaja

What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and seize the victory right then and there.

Miyamoto Musashi

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

Max Planck

Time is the essence of life

Sunday Adelaja

What you do with your time daily is essential for spiritual and physical growth

Sunday Adelaja

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

Max Planck

Time is the essence of life

Sunday Adelaja

What you do with your time daily is essential for spiritual and physical growth

Sunday Adelaja

Getting to know who you are is the most essential information that you can find out about yourself

Sunday Adelaja

Different views are essential for progress

WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM)

At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...

Janvier Chando

There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...

Janvier Chando

I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

W Somerset Maugham

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

Anna Gould

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Clarice Lispector

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Friedrich Nietzsche

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