"Although we love the idea of choice -……" — Hugh Mackay
"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
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33 Quotes by Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
- Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching…
- Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated…
- Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
- It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
- But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like…
- It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong…
- One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us…
- The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting…
- Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already…
- Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they…
- Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be…