“I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.” FeelingsGuiltProductive Author:Pieter Hugo
“I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on.” KidsHouseObviousSentiments Author:Pieter Hugo
“It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means we have to start making dishonest work, which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature.” MeanArtistBehaviorScaryPropagandaPolitically Correct Author:Pieter Hugo
“There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.” KindChildrenMotherIndividualStrongIdentityWesternVery StrongPregnantNursingPregnant Women Author:Anne Enright
“The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger black world bordered us on one side. More distantly, there was the larger white world. We interacted with some, but not others. If you think of it as an internal geography, it is a land, a contested space with these very charged historical, cultural, and emotional borders.” ThinkingWorldBlackQualityEmotionalHistoricalGeography Author:Margo Jefferson
“When I wrote my first book, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, it was endorsed by the American Management Association, and consequently was read by America's top corporate leaders, and overnight put me in high demand as a consultant and as a speaker. Also, that book forever changed the way businesses look at and deal with crises by giving a tangible feel to an otherwise intangible subject.” GivingBookLeaderForeverChangedManagementCrisisPlanningInevitableSpeakers Author:Steven Fink
“Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.” SchoolTeachingCollegeManagementCrisisPragmatic Author:Steven Fink
“Too often, clients want us to give them a one-size-fits-all crisis management plan from off the shelf. Some of our competitors do this because it's fast and cheap. They build a plan once and keep using the same plan over and over with other clients.” GivingManagementCrisisWant U Author:Steven Fink
“I often say that good crisis management is good decision-making under stress.” StressManagementCrisisGood Decision Author:Steven Fink
“Mistakes are good provided you learn from them, and correct them promptly.” Mistake Author:Steven Fink