"Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman."
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"More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow."
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"An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation"
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"Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy"
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"Accuracy is essential to beauty."
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"The basic and essential human is the woman."
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"To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential."
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"This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God."
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"It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty."
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"Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person."
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"A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge."
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"Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life."
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"Plans are useless, but planning is essential."
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"Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile."
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"There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it."
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"The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity."
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"Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential."
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"Love is essential, gregariousness is optional."
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"The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration."
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"The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow."
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