#essential

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#difficult #essentially #i #immortal #only

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

#best #career #choose #essential #four

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#am #because #case #dull #essentially

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#being #beside #cuts #essentially #everything

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#angeles #been #boys and girls #city #club

I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#america #been #bodies #chief #corporate

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#allowed #became #because #charter #conflict

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self. ↗

— Martha Beck

#essential #self #takes #whatever #your

Life is essentially a question of values. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#life #question #values

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing