536 Quotes About Essence

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.