Niall FitzGerald famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party

  • Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

  • I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

  • Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

  • Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

  • Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

  • Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

  • The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

  • Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  • Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.