Art Quote by Lucy Powell Download Open image “Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.” — Lucy Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Difficult Difficult time Difficult times First things Firsts Funding Sports Time
In China or in the U.S., the government program takes over promising sporting talent at a very early age and then financially secures their… — Jwala Gutta Copy Share Image
My family are big philanthropists, but not at putting big money into sport. Today sport is professional. It has to support itself or it… — Frank Lowy Copy Share Image
Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
In a country like Brazil, when you have major issues to solve as violence and health care, the government spends money with sports. — Mauricio Rua Copy Share Image
I think our path to the Olympics is a good metaphor for how you build a company. Our skill and commitment grew over time,… — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult. — Anne Donovan Copy Share Image
As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to… — Gagan Narang Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy. — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image