Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.

Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.

I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope you have enough corks to plug enough of the holes.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control.

How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.

[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid

America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.