Nature is so powerful so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Music at its essence is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives the more memories we have of it.

In essence String Theory describes space and time matter and energy gravity and light indeed all of God's creation... as music.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said the essence of what I had said was wrong.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

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.

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.