Robert Hewison famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.
-- Robert Hewison

#Friends #Running #Failure
If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
-- Robert Hewison

#Past #Yesterday #Creative
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
-- Robert Hewison

#Taken #Optimism #Modernism
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
-- Robert Hewison

#Country #Numbers #Museums
Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation,
-- Robert Hewison

#Order #Capacity #Observation
[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.
-- Robert Hewison

#Order #Capacity #Observation

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.
I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

Robert Hewison famous quotes

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