David de Kretser Quotes

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.

David de Kretser

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• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Me

• I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • God
  • America
  • Doubt

• I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Words

• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Change
  • Paradox

• Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • She
  • Career
  • Parents

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Time
  • Business
  • Change

• As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Science
  • Problem
  • New

• We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • God
  • Change

• If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Remember
  • Way

• We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Change
  • Rules
  • Results

• Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Change
  • Choice

• I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Change
  • Play
  • Hair

• But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Want
  • Kind

• I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Change
  • Team
  • Management

• Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Change
  • Health
  • Talk

• When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Trying
  • School
  • High

• If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

  

  George Pelecanos
  • True
  • Death
  • Storytellers

• Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • World
  • Company
  • Solution

• There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.

  

  David de Kretser
  • Change
  • Problem
  • Doubt