Trying to capture the essence of India is almost like trying to bottle magic, which is hard to do because India is so broad and diverse – it’s controlled chaos. But there’s spirituality and wholeness to the people.
The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
I’m interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.
Our culture doesn’t ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that’s not a noble goal.
Look – I’m an African-American. I’m black. But I’m just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that’s the work I’m doing. That’s the work I always do.
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.
A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity – the team – the show – which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.
While traveling around the world, I’ve had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I’ve learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as ‘normal’ – everybody’s different, and that is the essence of their beauty.
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
You write a character, but in essence, it’s just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and they have their own sort of interpretations and thoughts. If you respond to those and then go forward with them, then it’s kind of like magic to see the idea you had become alive and in the flesh.
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism – which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people – is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle.
If the U.S. were to not reauthorize the Ex-Im bank, it’s in essence unilaterally disarming in a globally competitive environment.
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel acting is all about truthfully portraying the character.
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: ‘What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?’
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that’s been done, then he’s not too particular about the details. I think that’s why he’s happy.
In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.
I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‘forever young at heart.’
In Washington, there is a way to have disagreements and debates, which is so healthy, but a way to be friends at the end of the day, which I believe is the essence of America.
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
I’ve learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you’re trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, ‘This sounds funny,’ and going from there.
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving ‘Ebony’ and ‘Essence.’ Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.
Ensuring that our children have more and better opportunities is the essence of the American dream.
My Food Network shows, ‘Emeril Live’ and ‘Essence of Emeril,’ are not in production right now, but I wouldn’t say that I’m necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it’s just a matter of time before I do something new.
The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I’ll go over a piece of copy until I’ve gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind – every nuance.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
That’s the essence of pro wrestling to me, is the traveling, the road, going from Kalamazoo to the next random town.
In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can’t let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can’t.
These humiliations are the essence of the game.
I’m interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what’s left? It’s like I’m trying to describe the soul to an alien.
The essence to me of all good drama is argument.
In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ‘ridiculously in charge,’ then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.
There’s something about ‘Essence’ that we more than like – that we really love: the history of the community, the forward-thinking leadership.
You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
With ‘Shinobi,’ we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.
I’ve struggled with that over the years: Is fashion relevant? Is it frivolous? Is it trivial? Because I give so much of my essence to it, as do everybody I work with.
Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.
I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.
I like ‘I Can’t Stand the Rain.’ I like it because it has a really oriental feeling to it, an ‘oriental taste,’ it has an essence of Asia.
The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.
