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The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
Michael Porter
You
Strategy
Must
Limits
Accomplish
Trying
Essence
Set
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.
Moshe Safdie
You
Culture
Building
Think
Resonates
Out
India
City
Architect
Arkansas
Feels
Come
Like
Singapore
Because
Understand
Buildings
Essence
Different
Place
Places
Create
Kansas
Kansas City
Need
The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
Nelson Algren
Life
Faith
Class
Denial
Playwrights
Enough
Has-Been
Strongly
Writers
Comfort
Imposed
Been
Sources
Off
End
Itself
American
Personal
Essence
Middle
Them
Cut
American Writers
Deeper
The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.
Paul Keating
Future
Leadership
Responsibility
Taking
Trying
Essence
Essentially
Interpret
Present
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
Sheri L. Dew
Nature
Women
Father
Motherhood
Gave
Our
Our Father
Defines
Though
Stature
More
Bearing
Divine
Identity
Very
Than
Traits
Essence
Children
Us
Certainly
Who
Unique
The essence of a thoughtful spring menu is bringing the table to life with flavorful color!
Sherry Yard
Life
Spring
Thoughtful
Table
Color
Menu
Essence
Bringing
For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.
Stephen Covey
Great
Spiritual
Me
Constitution
World
Believe
Great American
Our
Dream
Constitutions
Inspired
Throughout
Written
Principles
Timeless
Modeled
American
Essence
American Dream
After
Reason
Based
Why
Universal
Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
Tariq Ramadan
Spirituality
Month
Essence
Humanist
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Virginia Woolf
Mind
Poet
Gives
Prose
Takes
His
Essence
Us
Body
Mold
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham
Beautiful
Unity
Variety
Essence
A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.
Adam Sadowsky
Machine
Essence
Thing
It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
Adrian Cronauer
Constitution
People
Sky
Congress
Else
Airwaves
Out
Written
Clear
Said
Blue
Essence
Blue Sky
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Which
Means
Belong
Belongs
'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
Alber Elbaz
Art
You
Word
Creation
Design
Some
Object
Something
Only
Also
Sort
Because
Pragmatic
Said
End
Commercial
Essence
Maybe
CEOs
Use
Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'
Alex Gibney
Simple
Guardian
Pure
Wikileaks
New
Were
Very
Times
York
Same
Essence
New York
New York Times
Much
Publisher
Position
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.
Amy Lowell
Life
Heart
Men
Past
Books
More
Very
Than
Quintessence
Died
Essence
Worked
Ages
Reason
Why
Lives
Core
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
Andrea Bocelli
Myself
Ambition
Objective
Having
Feel
Without
Doing
Any
Essence
Right
Set
My approach to Pennywise was, on one hand, I wanted to stay true to the essence of the character but at the same time make it an edgier character that is basically unpredictable and people won't expect everything he comes up with.
Andy Muschietti
Time
Character
People
Approach
Everything
Stay
Stay True
Unpredictable
He
True
Make
Hand
Up
Expect
Same
Essence
Same Time
Wanted
Basically
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Ang Lee
Life
Truth
You
Worth
Illusion
Nothing
Nothingness
Immaterial
Way
More
Pursuing
Principle
Material
Prove
Source
Essence
Working
Actually
Things
She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
Anne Edwards
Battle
Distilled
Sexes
Between
She
Essence
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
Anne Rice
Christian
Has-Been
Vocation
Since
Another
Been
Essence
Going
Form
Story
Evangelist
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
Annie Besant
Life
God
Needs
Religion
Knowledge
Men
Nothing
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Superfluous
Surface
Than
Essence
Which
Eternal
Eternal Life
Less
Save
At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.
Anohni
Day
End Of The Day
Illusion
Entirely
Female
End
Sovereignty
Essence
Origin
If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.
Anthony Mackie
You
Protection
Black
Community
Group
More
True
Look
Were
Essence
For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective consciousness. But like many of the myths associated with colonialism, the reality is very different.
Antonio Guterres
Reality
People
Collective
Long
Colonialism
Our
Located
Collective Consciousness
Mythical
Myths
Boundaries
Like
Very
Essence
Different
Place
Faraway
Many
Consciousness
Associated
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado
Man
Otherwise
Would
Would-Be
Essence
Human
Specifically
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
Arlen Specter
Democracy
Free
Essence
Electorate
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