#sence

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it. ↗

— Jack Welch

#competitiveness #essence #get #important #liberated

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers. ↗

— Esther Williams

#beverly hills #daily #despite #hills #hotel

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#course #different #different place #different things #essence

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. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#existed #gives #lives #longer #memories

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#immediate #into #know #maurice #presence

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#been #begin #book #each #exists

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ↗

— Morris Graves

#external #external world #eye #i #inner

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#clothing #clown #compromised #could #different

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#absence #confiscation #gold #gold standard #inflation