“Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.” MenWarJobsThreeEssenceMalesAverageProfessionVietnamBodyguardEveryman Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.” DifferentStoriesJobsNovelEssenceScreensVehicleMaintainingScreenplays Author:Barry Eisler
“A purpose statement is, in essence, a written-down reason for being. Jesus' mission helped him decide how to act, what to do, and even what to say when challenging situations arose. Clarity is power: Once you are clear about what you were put here to do then 'jobs' become only a means toward accomplishing your mission, not an end in themselves.” MeanEndsReasonJobsPurposeJesusChallengesSituationClearWrittenEssenceMissionsStatementsClarityChallenging Situations Author:Laurie Beth Jones
“PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow.” WayDoneTodayJobsRiskTomorrowEssenceManagementDevelopingBetter WaysRisk Management Author:Brian L. Joiner
“Dreams, in their essence, include risk. This risk could be physical danger (often true in climbing big mountains like Everest), or it could be financial (leaving a comfortable job and pouring your life savings into a business venture), or it could be emotional (like the feelings of loss and questioning that comes with losing friends and coworkers to climbing accidents).” FeelingsDreamBigsJobsLossRiskDangerEmotionalMountainComfortableLosingEssenceLeavingFinancialAccidentsSavingClimbingQuestioningVentureSavingsPouringEverestCoworkerLife SavingLosing Friends Author:Adrian Ballinger
“It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingCharacterJobsGivenActingFiguresRedEssenceCluePersonaHerringRed Herrings Author:Kevin Spacey
“The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.” PeopleRealityMotivationalJobsEasyEnvironmentFashionDesignEssenceMeaningfulAttractiveCivilizedInteriorsInterior DesignInterior Space Author:Albert Hadley
“I was blessed with good genetics, but my essence is very happy and warm and I don’t take my job too seriously. I’m not saving lives here.” JobsEssenceBlessedWarmSavingVery HappyGeneticsSave A Life Author:Miranda Kerr
“Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.” KnowsCharacterJobsEssenceIconic Author:Jacques Audiard
“I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.” GivingJobsGamesWinningFeltPlayerSucceedBasketballEssenceCoachesBackgroundsCoachingBasketball Game Author:Bobby Knight
“It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of a child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for the simple pleasure of seeing. And so long as we fail to do this, so long will the essence of things be hidden from us.” PeopleWorldMindFirstsLooksChildrenLongIdeasCountryAbleJobsSimplePleasureEmotionFailingSeeingStrangeProveFirst TimeEssencePhotographerBusyWorriedStaringObsessedTravelerToo BusySimple PleasuresThoughts And Emotions Author:Bill Brandt
“Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change jobs," but you can't avoid having a job - just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can't avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.” PeopleGivingMeanStatesJobsOrderCoursesNationsMastersEssenceLibertarianNationalityServitudeObeyingSubjection Author:Bob Black