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
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Walter F. Ulmer
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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
Henri Bergson 
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
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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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You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.
Andy Roddick
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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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The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Thomas J. Watson
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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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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Honore Gabriel Riquet
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Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.
Charles Krauthammer
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks
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