Brian Ruckley Quotes
Think how much happier the world might be if people sought approval for what they do from their children instead of their ancestors.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think it's always best to be who you are.
-
I have selective hearing.
-
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
-
But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
-
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
-
Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
-
I hate competition.
-
I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
-
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
-
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
-
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
-
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
-
Men create the gods in their own image.
-
Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
-
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
-
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
-
I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
-
We all have to make choices in life.
-
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
-
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
-
I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.
-
We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film.
-
There are distractions, all around. There's so much media, for a young kid to battle against, to get to something soulful. You have to make a decision, on your own, what you can take from these people, if you can dig deeper. It's nice to be able to let people dig deeper.
-
Think how much happier the world might be if people sought approval for what they do from their children instead of their ancestors.
