"What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust."

-- Martin Filler

#Trust Quotes #Art Quotes #Integrity Quotes

“I'm dominant every night. I come in every night and get beat up. I never make a face when they try to flagrant or hack-a-Shaq me, because I'm not from this planet. Earthlings don't faze me.”
“Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes: that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best, the most human, most honorable race the world possesses”

Source : "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.
“The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.”
“Go away,â€ he said. â€œDo you know youâ€™ve almost no clothes on?â€ â€œNever mind. I needâ€”â€ â€œNever mind? Listen to me, Miss Innocence. There are many things a man can â€˜never mind.â€™ A nearly naked woman isnâ€™t one of them.”
“The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all of them different, every week; and all around him is sand, trees, grass, water, wind and 143 other players. In addition, the game is 50 percent mental, so his biggest enemy is himself.”
“In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.”
“For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.”
“The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.”

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