That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.
The essential purpose of astrology is not so much to tell us what we will meet on our road, as it is to suggest how to meet it – and the basic reason for the meeting. Which quality in us, which type of strength is needed to go through any specific phase of our total unfoldment as an individual person.
Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.
The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.
I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears. Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot exist without certain things. Those are the very essentials of it - effort is one of the essentials. Hence all the great Masters of the world have taught about grace.
It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another has not those things, which are not necessary for our maintenance; he who has them has not thereby obtained control over anything that could be an essential addition to his nature, but has only obtained something illusory or deceptive. . . . This is the rule at all times and in all places; no notice should be taken of exceptional cases, as we have explained.
If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.
We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.
An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.
The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.
The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.