Essential Quotes

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.

Secrecy is as essential to Intelligence as vestments to a Mass, or darkness to a spiritualist seance, and must at all costs be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

There is nothing in Indispensable that says, Alone.

Courage is essential to leadership.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Keep it simple.

Only useless things are indispensable.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Liberty, the soul of everything. Without you, life is dead.

No use saying necessity is making a mistake.

Simplicity is the key.

As I travel around the country, I am inspired by leaders who know that offering paid leave - whether sick time or family leave - isn't just the right thing to do: it's essential to building an economy that works for everyone.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.