“XL is dedicated to understanding shifting business dynamics and helping our clients thrive in increasingly complex and changing environments. 'The Future of the Company' platform will allow us to offer insights and commentary on these essential topics to a global and diverse audience and feature insights from XL experts.” HelpingUnderstandingCompanyAudienceEnvironmentOffersEssentialsComplexesInsightFeaturesExpertsThriveDedicatedPlatformsDiverseClientsTopicsShiftingCommentaryDynamicsChanging Environment Author:Mike McGavick
“Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.” ThinkingSoundEmotionAudienceEmotionalTypeEssentialsMusicianWaveEngineersOrganizeSound Waves Author:Stefon Harris
“Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.” NeedsHumansSometimesUsePoetryLosesAudienceMysteryInvolvedEssentialsWaveAppealsBeing Human Author:Edward Hirsch
“[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.” WayNeedsHas BeensPlayNightActorsAudienceFrontsNeededInvolvedEssentialsSittingTheaterOpeningTonightDeniedEquipmentHandicappedOpening Night Author:Hallie Flanagan
“The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.” DoeTwoThreeDifferencesPracticeAudienceDisciplineEssentialsCriticsTwo DaysSkip Author:Jascha Heifetz
“The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.” ImportantAudienceMembersEssentials Author:David
“A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.” MenWorldFeelsChristSinChristianityAudienceEssentialsRecoveryBeing TrueGrantedAssumption Author:C. S. Lewis
“To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience.” TryingImportantAudienceComedyFineInvolvedEssentialsElementsBraveAlways TryingStand Up Comedy Author:Bill Maher
“There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.” TryingDifferencesViewsAudienceComedyMaterialsDependsEssentialsTragedyPoint Of ViewCleverEmphasis Author:George P. Baker
“It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For me, any time you're going to have a reveal in the film, it's essential that it have been shown to the audience as much as possible. What that means is that some people are going to figure it out very early on. Other people not til the end. Everybody watches the film differently.” PeopleMeanHas BeensImportantEndsPlayFilmWatchesAudienceFiguresEssentialsFairsTricks Author:Christopher Nolan
“In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is what the audience believes in. And that's essential. Because if the audience doesn't believe that, they're never going to trust you. And if they don't trust you, you can't lead them up the mountain.” IfsBelieveRealRealityAudienceMountainEssentialsFindingsBeing RealDon't Trust Author:John Hurt
“If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.” IfsFirstsKindDifferentAbilityResponsibilityAudienceSafeEssentialsFunctionUniversityIdeologyPerformingDifferent KindsAmendmentsSpeakersPlatformsAgnosticFirst Amendment Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.” LightMightSchoolUsedReadingAudienceMastersGrewEssentialsAuthorityLonelyMirrorsCornersUnhappyIndifferenceLazyElitesDreadDiscouragedPosingResentfulFew FriendsPariahsSulking Book:F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned