I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are talking the mickey out of the consumer. -Richard Branson 2.54K
My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to this today.’ -Richard Branson 1.12K
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. 717
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. 1.23K
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. 1.09K
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. 2.49K
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. 661
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. 662
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. 715
There is still the feeling that women’s writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. 694
If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans – but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don’t have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that. 2.51K
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. 621
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. 730
Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. 1.07K
