“It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.” PeoplePastIndividualEssentialsPerception Author:Clement Freud
“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.” ThinkingWorldYearsHumansTwoPlayFeelingsPastJoyHouseHuman BeingsWonderAwarenessEssentialsIncrediblesPianoEach DayDaily LifeRoutineEightyPreludeBenedictionWonder Of LifeFugueRediscovery Author:Pablo Casals
“A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.” RealPastEconomyActivityEssentialsFinancialDecadesFeaturesOperationsTransactionsFinancial Services Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century
“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present” ReasonTodayPastArtistValuesPleasureInterestingQualityPaintingEssentialsConcernHistoricalDuesMannersRepresentationHistorical Value Book:The Painters of Modern Life Source: The Painters of Modern Life
“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.” WritingPastWishFeltCasesSourceTenEssentialsOriginalsOneselfNine Author:Elizabeth Bowen