It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Change is the essence of life.
We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge.
I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.
The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: [. . . ] I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.
The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.
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.
When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing.
When I look in the mirror I see the woman I knew I wanted to be as a child. When I was a young girl, I had a vision of the woman I wanted to be. And I often reached out to women of color in America for inspiration. My mother would regularly buy Essence and Ebony. I would look at those magazines filled with images of professional, intelligent women of color who knew who they were, who enjoyed who they were, and who were surrounded by other people who enjoyed who they were. When I look in the mirror, I'm really glad that that's what I see today, but it took awhile to get here.
All men are alike when asleep.
By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought. . . . This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.