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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• There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Change
  • Myself

• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• 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've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Time
  • War
  • Help

• 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

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• 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

• I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Problem
  • Creative
  • Abilities

• 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

• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Change
  • Electricity

• I don’t give advice. I can’t tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

  

  Joyce Brothers
  • Problem
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Freedom
  • Change
  • Imagination

• Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Truth
  • Errors
  • Valuable

• Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Liberty
  • Animals

• 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