Top Essence Quotes
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
Robert Morgan
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
Francis Ford Coppola
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov
Constantin Brancusi 
H. G. Wells 
Michael Porter 
Isaac Bashevis Singer 
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Michael K. Powell 
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You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.
Andy Roddick 
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In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
Robert Delaunay
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Paul Simon
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One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Georg Buchner
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
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