Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — John W. Gardner
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing. — Janet Erskine Stuart
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste. — Cary Grant
Short Quintessential Quotes
The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso. — Ernesto Illy
I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album. — Mark Kozelek
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! — Evelyn Waugh
My father was the quintessential husband and dad. — Sidney Poitier
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. — Sara Shepard
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. — William R. Alger
Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad. — Gina Barreca
Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement. — Marvin R. Weisbord
It's quintessentially American to transform your family. — Howard Rheingold
I was your quintessential nerd in high school. — Neal Boortz
Quintessential Image Quotes
Quintessential Love Quotes
Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic. — Vin Diesel
It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect. — Bell Hooks
My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time. — Joshua Mohr
It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman. — Barry S. Strauss
I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats. — Philip Treacy
The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We all experience pain and suffering, but it is not the quintessential nature of life. Just because the earth turns away from the sun and night occurs doesn't mean that the sun isn't always shining. It might be hard to see sometimes, but goodness and divine beauty can always be found if you adjust your vision just right. — John Friend
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world. — Amartya Sen
Playing normal is hard; especially playing normal that's not you. The biggest challenge in playing Alicia is trying to make a teenage girl seem fully formed and not the quintessential moody teenager with a quippy, sassy line here and there. — Alycia Debnam Carey
Remember that for every technique you think you can fall back
on, there is a counter for it, or there are times when it cannot
be used. When real battle comes, you must remember that
some things will not be applicable. Don't think that any one
technique is quintessential. — Masaaki Hatsumi
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self. — Richard Tuttle
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph. — Michael Kenna
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care. — Bernard Lown
The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us - is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor. — John C. Bogle
"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources... — Paul Saffo
People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed. — Garrett Hardin
The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright - and in the long run, that's how it will be. — David Gelernter
I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do. — John Wesley
I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to. — Philip Freelon
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life. — Marlon Brando
I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press. — L. Neil Smith
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. — Gerhard Richter
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community. — Radhika Coomaraswamy
People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. — Helena Bonham Carter
Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield. — Melissa Gilbert
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. — Gustav Heinemann
David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it. — Brooke Fraser
I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities. — Mike Birbiglia
Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most part, kind of southern man, kind of the true heart of what it meant to be a Kiwi kind of farmer; very kind of outdoor man living off the land. That kind of thing, you don't see so much anymore these days with everyone being metrosexual and lattes and laptops. — Rhys Darby
The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate. — Aung San Suu Kyi
My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime. — Tavis Smiley
I think what I'm doing is quintessentially American because I'm not American - even though I am on the verge of getting my American passport next week - I have a fantasy of what is American. Big spaces, Marlon Brando, James Dean, easy living. — Italo Zucchelli
I make work that tries to sort of connect with something really, really familiar. I don't try to make work that's original. I try to make work that's quintessential. That's what I mean about the familiar. It operates with stuff that people already know or information that they already have and I try to just use that. Quintessential means like the perfect minimalist sculptor. — Tony Tasset
I do think of my work as being quintessentially American in that it could only have emerged in that particular situation that I find myself. I feel that a lot of my work is working on problems that might be specifically American problems, but not exclusively. — Tom Burr
[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural." — Dick Wolf
For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people never talk about, don't really think about, and it's forgotten within this major thing that is thought to be this cataclysmic event of the 20th century. — Karina Longworth
Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that, maybe there's a bridge, then you'll go out on a chorus - that's the quintessential song structure - sometimes you might do a fake-out, re-do a pre-chorus but the chorus doesn't come until later, but for the most part you follow these tried and true structures. — Frank Iero
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