Quotes About Sense

Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents.

Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change.

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.