Ed Martin Quotes

I enjoy the quiet life.

You don't have to show people how successful you are.

If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.

You can't be an absentee entrepreneur and expect the team to stay motivated.

Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib. ... They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go over them.

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.

If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.

It's great to be with people you like!

I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!

The first day ofschool was always so exciting because you get new shoes and a new backpack, but by the last day of school, you're like, "I don't care. I will wear sweats. Am I done yet?"

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything; it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.

I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

What's the glory in living? Doesn't anybody ever stay together anymore?

Right now, I don't believe [Donald Trump]. I don't trust him.

If [Donald Trump] really has an agenda to help, let him move forward with it. We'll see.

If [Donald Trump] is got a program and an agenda and an infrastructure and all of that that he's going to do, let him come forward.

If [Donald Trump] comes forward and if he does that, then, of course, there will be some engagement.

There's been a lot of study of the demographics this year that could decide this election [2016] and a lot of money being spent targeting voters who could tip the vote.

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

It's secret that evangelical Christians are critical players in Republican primaries.

Ted Cruz is trying to have a one-on-one debate with Donald Trump.

Why was Donald Trump's decision not to participate in the Fox debate such a big deal?

Donald Trump said he didn't think Megyn Kelly had been fair to him. But he also talked about Fox's response to this.

Roger Ailes said, we learned from a secret back channel that the ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president.

Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.

A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.

Who the hell uses a burner cell phone when they're not trying to hide something? [..] Only dope dealers, and Hell's Angels, and Tony Soprano use burner cell phones.

Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.

[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.

The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.