#essentials

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

— John D. Rockefeller

#chief #essentials #life #matter #may

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#effect #essentials #everything #gets #motherhood

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#could #did #enamored #essentials #got

Obedience is the fruit and proof of love; and the words of the Master are suggestive, "If a man love Me he will keep My words" (John 14:23). One has forcibly remarked, "When people speak of 'essentials' and 'non-essentials' they generally mean by the former what concerns their own salvation, and by the latter those things which only concern the glory of God! ↗

— Alexander Marshall

#obedience #love

Be first, different & daring ↗

— James D. Roumeliotis

#james-roumeliotis #business

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#essentials #grand #happiness #life #love

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. ↗

— Mose Allison

#concerned #essentials #far #i #improvisation

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

#accompanying #acquired #beginnings #causes #completed

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

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#because #change #conditions #essentials #events