Ulrich Quotes & Sayings

At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand. — Ulrich Walter

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at. — Skeet Ulrich

Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative. — Skeet Ulrich

I had never believed either in God, or in the Devil, or in a King, or in the Pope (as for the Revolution, so far I had no knowledge of it), but I had always been taught to recognize Grace and Beauty, and they alone, in my opinion, justified the curtseys, the fervor in our souls, the fullness of our hearts. - Max-Ulrich — Henri Guigonnat

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability. — Ulrich Beck

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder. — Skeet Ulrich

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. — Ulrich Beck

I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies. — Lars Ulrich

It is easier to talk about doing things than doing them. Many of us want to exercise more, eat more healthy, be kinder to our loved ones, etc., but unless we have specific milestones about how to do this, our intentions do not match our actions. The HR milestones we lay out offer specific steps along the longer journey to HR transformation. — Dave Ulrich

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite. — Skeet Ulrich

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded. — Lars Ulrich

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth. — Lars Ulrich

When desperate people seek easy solutions without doing the hard work of fundamental learning and change, resilience is undermined and real growth and learning fade. — Dave Ulrich

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism. — Skeet Ulrich

Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off. — Lars Ulrich

Increasingly the individuals who want to live together are, or more precisely are becoming, the legislators of their own way of life, the judges of their own transgressions, the priests who absolve their own sins and the therapists who loosen the bonds of their own past. — Ulrich Beck Y Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

We do not see through our eyes alone. — Dave Ulrich

I get to play a killer next. — Skeet Ulrich

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. — Ulrich Beck

Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort. — Dave Ulrich

They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle. — Rana Dasgupta

You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country. — Ulrich Beck

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. — Ulrich Beck

We know - more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors - that the women and men who experienced that moment in Hiroshima believed they had encountered the beginning of the end of the world. There will never be enough future to prove them wrong. — Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

The next time I met Ulrich, he asked me: "Do you know what sookin sin is?" I — Whittaker Chambers

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I'm entering my Viggo Mortensen phase. — Skeet Ulrich

For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

People will change when they see that the change will help them reach their goals. If the CHRO sees that the HR transformation that others desire will help the CHRO reach his or her goals, then there will be more support. Absent this reasoning, the CHRO may go through the motions, but the transformation will not be sincere or lasting. — Dave Ulrich

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. — Ulrich Beck

1) Choose a person, older than yourself, you see frequently - not too often by approx once a week or once a month. Maybe one of your grandparents if they are still alive.
2) Every time you meet the chosen person you press your 2 pointing-fingers firmly against your eyes for 10 to 20 seconds until various colors and patterns arise.
3) Try to note or memorize the patterns and colors in connection with the context and repeat the practice every time you meet the chosen person for a as long as possible, minimum 6 months.
4) After minimum 6 months of this practice you can recall the person, virtually by pressing your eyes for a while. In the midst of the colors and pattern a sense of presence of the chosen person arrives even after the chosen person has died. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

After years of training [as astronaut], you have great confidence in the technology. When you get in your car, you probably feel safe too, even though thousands of people die in car crashes every year. — Ulrich Walter

Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. — Ulrich Beck

Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world. — Skeet Ulrich

Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents. — Ulrich Beck

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them. — Skeet Ulrich

I'll wait until we're both older," the kid went on, "and then I'll nail her."Van hit the brakes. "What?""Like you and Aunt Irene."Panic beginning to set in, Van asked again, "What?""That's what you told her last night when I was scrubbing the pots from dinner. You were going to nail her. Then you laughed."Oh, shit. "Uh, Ric ... ""And so I'll just wait until my future mate and I are older and then I'll nail her. Or we'll nail each other. That sounds like more fun. Nailing each other.""Listen, Ulrich - ""What is that, anyway? Nailing? The way Aunt Irene smiled when you said it; I'm guessing its fun, right? — Shelly Laurenston

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die. — Skeet Ulrich

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. — Ulrich Beck

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica. — Lars Ulrich

Lost are only those who abandon themselves. — Hans-Ulrich Rudel

Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

Well-behaved women seldom make history. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. — Ulrich Beck

When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity. — Ulrich Beck

I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it? — Ulrich Walter

A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk. — Ulrich Walter

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater. — Skeet Ulrich

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words. — Ulrich Beck

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life. — Ulrich Von Hutten

At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future. — Lars Ulrich

I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues. — Dave Ulrich

People are more likely to support a change when they have information on it and when they participate in it. So, getting the CHRO information about the transformation and involving the CHRO in the transformation effort are critical to success. — Dave Ulrich

I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica. — Lars Ulrich

I like ideas, frameworks, and figures. — Dave Ulrich

One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out. — Hulk Hogan

My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

Piaget's third way (i.e., alternative to empiricism and nativism) is that knowledge develops through the child's actions on the world. In addition, knowledge is always tied to a particular framework (see Chapter 3, this volume), a paradigm case of which are the structures that emerge as any knowing subject interacts with the world. — Ulrich Muller

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. — Skeet Ulrich

I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

10 - Onward & Downward — Philip Ulrich

Ulrich Van Holtz continued to read the latest tome on world economics, pretending to be bored, but in truth absolutely fascinated! — Shelly Laurenston

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore. — Skeet Ulrich

I don't believe in the creativity of the curator. I don't think that the exhibition-maker has brilliant ideas around which the works of artists must fit. Instead, the process always starts with a conversation, in which I ask the artists what their unrealized projects are, and then the task is to find the means to realize them.
pg 10 — Hans Ulrich Obrist

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible. — Skeet Ulrich

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me. — Skeet Ulrich

I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play. — Skeet Ulrich

I had gone to school to study marine biology. — Skeet Ulrich

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience. — Skeet Ulrich

I think you have to refill the well at some point. — Skeet Ulrich

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. — Skeet Ulrich

This is treachery, to change faith in accord with shifting fortune. The justice of my cause impelled me to withstand even adverse circumstance. — Ulrich Von Hutten

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck

I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous. — Ulrich Beck

There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company. — Dave Ulrich

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. — Ulrich Beck

What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there. — Brian Ulrich

Improving the skills of HR colleagues. The best learners are also teachers. Investing in building the skills of HR colleagues requires individuals to be clear and disciplined about a topical area, tool, or technology. — David Ulrich

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones. — Lars Ulrich

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. — Ulrich Beck

I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti. — Hans Ulrich Obrist