Gerard Mortier quotes

“It's not worth having if it comes with no effort.”
-- Gerard Mortier

Source : "Gerard Mortier obituary" by Barry Millington, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2014.

#Effort Quotes

“Art is the questioning of culture”
-- Gerard Mortier

#Art Quotes #Culture Quotes #Questioning Quotes

“It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986

“At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke”

“But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.”

“My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.”

“Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.”

“"We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..." "It was very probable that the Jordan army might start the battle."”

“Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.”

“There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.”

“Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.”

“Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.”