Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
-
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
-
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
-
Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
-
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
-
It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
-
But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.
-
I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.
-
Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
-
I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.
-
I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
-
When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.
-
The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.
-
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.
-
I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together.
-
However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.
-
I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.
-
Winning a major, that's what everybody wants to do, and I worked my whole life to do it. And to realize that, it's incredible.
-
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
-
It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
-
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
-
Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death. Because it’s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It’s the guys, the gals. It’s the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music.
-
I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
