"There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC."

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Source : "Resignation statement by Gavyn Davies", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

Gavyn Davies

#Responsibility Quotes #Writing Quotes #Today Quotes

“Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.”
“Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.”
“Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.”

Source : Hans Hartung, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1975). “Hans Hartung: Paintings, 1971-1975 : [exhibition], October 16, 1975-January 4, 1976 : [catalogue].”, p.25, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are actually united, when the tormenting conflicts or contradictions between my consciousness and my body will have been factually resolved or discarded.”
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
“As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.”
“A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.”
“In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.”

Source : "MARC FABER: Sure Gold Is Down, But Apple Is Down By Twice As Much" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. April 12, 2013.

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