Jeffrey Deitch Quotes

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

Jeffrey Deitch

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• I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Bad
  • About

• When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Book
  • Criticism

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Father

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Learn

• A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Circumstances
  • Merger

• It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Band

• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Happiness

• The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Done
  • Career
  • Learning

• A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Life
  • Food

• Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Friends

• I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Home
  • Together

• Things are only as important as you make them out to be.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Important

• People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • People

• I polled members of this council separately and it's generally thought we have to work together. But it was a lack of careful consideration that got us into the situation we're in today.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Work
  • Together
  • Today

• We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Question

• Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Free
  • Someone
  • Loving

• There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

  

  Edwina Currie
  • Smoke
  • Mud
  • Flung

• Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch