Quotes by Essentials In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure. Louis D. Brandeis failureessentialsbusiness Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. Louise Hart essentialsimportantself-esteem Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it. Luc Sante criminalsessentialsself The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him. Lucretia Mott essentialsbearsjesus Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza atomsessentialsdna Mystery is the essential element of every work of art. Luis Bunuel elementsessentialsart A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. Luis Bunuel essentialsaliveworld It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills. Louise Hay billsessentialsworry The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Ludwig von Mises enforcementessentialsgovernment The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved. Ludwig Wittgenstein finalsessentialsbelieve I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood. M. Russell Ballard motherhoodessentialsroles One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will. Lysander Spooner supportessentialsgovernment Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way. Lynne Tillman essentialsknowsway Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden. Mac Barnett pranksessentialsstories Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base. M. Scott Peck essentialsbelievepeople Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom. Lyndon B. Johnson essentialspowerfuleducation It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. M. Scott Peck essentialscommunitytasks There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points. Lyndon B. Johnson essentialsmothertwo Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive. Madeleine M. Kunin democracyessentialsheart The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism. Ludwig von Mises incomeessentialsfortune«3536373839404142434445»
