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“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.”

Thinking Trying Self Hard Conscious Essence Uniqueness Glamour Self Conscious Trying Really Hard

Book:Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist

Source: Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”

“And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?”

Way Littles Long Hard Reality Walks Alive Essence Reality Of Life Pleasant Why Not Bloody Harsh Harsh Reality

Book:The Lavender Garden: A Novel

Source: The Lavender Garden: A Novel

“The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.”

Believe Hard I Believe Design Building Concepts Labor Essence Software Entity Representation Constructs Testing Fidelity Representing Specifications

Author:Fred Brooks

“If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Hard Three Games Winning Player Team Football Essence Eight Extras Trust Me

Author:Alex Ferguson

“We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-quality organisation is people producing results because they want the results. It's puzzling we find that hard to understand, that if people are really enjoying, they'll innovate, they'll take risks, they'll have trust with one another because they are really committed to what they're doing and it's fun”

People Ifs Thinking Want Hard Fun Enjoy Results Quality Risk Essence Management Strategy Committed Traditional Organisation High Quality Puzzling Producing Results

Author:Peter Senge

“I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.”

“Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.”

Art Real Hard Helping Kids Spiritual Young Sound Emotion Consciousness Focus Prove Music Is Essence Invisible Invisible Things

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue.”

Thinking Hard Courses Causes Issues Essence Activist Frustrated Presidency

Author:Barack Obama

“The essence of the cinema that I'm interested in is a combination of love, rage, and curiosity. Sometimes it's hard to see those intentions, or maybe it's hard to portray them on film in a way that doesn't sound too preachy or irrelevant. So instead of saying it out loud, you say it multiple times in the movie by hiding it. You get a sensation after you see the whole film throughout yourself.”

Way Sometimes Hard Whole Film Sound Essence Intention Curiosity Rage Combination Loud Cinema Sensations Hiding Multiple Irrelevant

Author:Pablo Larrain

“Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.”

Ifs Believe Looks Stills Hard Light Life Is Waiting Born Achieve Protect Projects Messages Essence Breathe Seeds Broke Odds Look At Me If You Believe Follow Me Life Is Hard Against All Odds

Author:Tupac Shakur

“The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest. We need to fight very hard to create an environment out there that is more long term focussed and move away from short termism.”

World Needs Long Self Hard Moving Fighting Term Interest Wealth Environment Greater This World Capitalism Essence Threat Long Term Sanity Short Term Self Interest Greater Good Personal Wealth

Author:Paul Polman