But the ability to articulate what you are doing to be clear about it and to stick to it is I think the essence of political leadership.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
There is so I believe in the essence of everything something that we cannot call learning. There is my friend only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves within their own imagination to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter but in still smiles which lie far deeper.
Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees you have such a sense of the passage of time of history. It's like you're touching the essence the very substance of life.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting waiting waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.
The essence of Government is power and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse.
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
The essence of good government is trust.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present but it is a source of inspiration of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.