"No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Art Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Sides Quotes

“If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.”
“If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.”
“I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.”
“They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.”
“My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta.”
“When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.”
“I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?”
“Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.”

Source : Mark H. McCormack (1990). “What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”, Bantam

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