#essential

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

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And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

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Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both. ↗

— John Green

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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself. ↗

— Walter Lang

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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. ↗

— Joichi Ito

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Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential. ↗

— Joichi Ito

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Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

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With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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