The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.
The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.
You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things. . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.
When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum : God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.
Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.
The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses
If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.
I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.
The way the function dictates the form. . . elegant lines. . . nothing extraneous. . . this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.
Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.
The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program. . . is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.
We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play.
In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
The essence of good government is trust.