Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Living with only the bare essentials has not only provided superficial benefits such as the pleasure of a tidy room or the simple ease of cleaning, it has also led to a more fundamental shift. It's given me a chance to think about what it really means to be happy.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

With social media, they will keep you away from the essentials. With the weapon that you happily agreed to use against yourself.

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.

But somehow, standing in the clear night air, under a sky that glowed like a shower of sparks, none of that stuff mattered. It slipped off me. It was like shedding your clothes before you step in the shower. I felt I was down to essentials again. In fact I felt very close to God at that moment. I guess if you're ever going to feel close to God it'll be while you're looking at the heavens.

We do not work for unity; we work to end and erase disunity. Unity is of God; disunity is of man. In matters of doctrine and practice of conscience, our guide should be this traditional saying: "In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, liberty. But in all things, love.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined examined reduced to essentials and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life no matter what may be one's aim.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work Stick-to-itiveness and Common sense.