Rhys Darby Quotes

I've always been into monsters.

Rhys Darby

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• When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Thinking
  • Intelligence
  • Improvement

• Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Behavior
  • Influences
  • Factors

• I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Running
  • Race
  • Lines

• I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Environment

• However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Consideration

• We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Eye
  • Common
  • Observation

• I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Story
  • Experiments

• A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Miracle
  • Meeting
  • Borders

• Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Real
  • Value
  • Gift

• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Achieve
  • Self-confidence
  • Distaste

• The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Play
  • Brilliant
  • Best Thing

• Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Understand

• Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Way
  • Satisfaction

• What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for Donald Trump, and do not participate in that brand of animus, that gas-bagging of enormous bigotry.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Brother
  • Degrees
  • Enormous

• Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Invention
  • Fingertips

• War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Men
  • War
  • Knowledge

• I've always been into monsters.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Monsters