Quotes by Essence Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence. Dan Brown essencewritingwater It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon. Dan Chaon heartbreakingcartoonessence Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos. Dan Simmons essencecivilizationideas You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. Dan Simmons aberrationviolenceessence Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence. Dana Gioia essencelosingculture To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations. Daniel Barenboim manifestationrealessence ....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup. Daniel Goleman emotionalessenceself One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow. Daniel H. Pink frustrationessencefall This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. Daniel Kahneman heuristicsdifficult-questionsessence In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures. Daniel Kahneman optimisticstyleessence Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. Dante Alighieri arrowsessencetwo Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality. Daphne du Maurier precious-thingsmomentsessence In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you. Darren Hardy choicesessence If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence. Darren Johnson lost-loveessencesight Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader. Daryl Gregory essencebelieffiction Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain. Dave Barry painessencethinking Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion. David A. Bednar being-trueknowingessence Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long. David Baldacci essencelifelong When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth. As regards our security and life we defend ourselves and our moral and physical position is not bad. We can face the gangs... and were we allowed to mobilize all our forces we would have no doubts about the outcome... But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. Militarily, it is we who are on the defensive who have the upper hand but in the political sphere they are superior. David Ben-Gurion politicalfightingessence Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. David Bohm growinglive-for-todayessence«1415161718192021222324»
