Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

John Hillcoat Quotes

I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1960

Topics

Think Reality You Healthy Heroes

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Enough Poverty Poor Never Meat Rice

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John F. Kennedy

Life Today Courage Quality Past

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

Brain Organization Looking Think You

I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.

Time Blessing City Ideas Think You

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Child Someone You Go Know Want

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

Julen Lopetegui

Home Culture Football Stronger You

Instincts are learned on the football field through experience. It's vital in sports because things happen so rapidly that you have to rely on your instincts at times to make quick decisions.

Sports Experience Football Decisions

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

Patriotism New York City Growing Up

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

Nature Imagination Man Motivation

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

Life Work Family Opportunity Quality

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Divorce Gone Fact Unit Maybe

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

Future History Mistakes Past Learn

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John Hillcoat