Hugh Mackay Quotes

• Nada es perfecto. La vida es confusa. Las relaciones son complejas. Los resultados son inciertos. La gente es irracional.

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  Relationship, Perfect, Dating

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• If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start with politics and I wouldn't say too much about terrorism. I'd suggest as a first step, that you invite the neighbours over for a drink this weekend. Today a drink, tomorrow a barbeque, pretty soon, a community.

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  Weekend, Community, Anxiety

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• The thing we need most is each other.

  Hugh Mackay

  Necesita

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• One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

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  Liderazgo, Empresa, Responsabilidad

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• En realidad, no puedo imaginar nada más tedioso que una persona perfecta, sobre todo si fuera alguien que también me exigiera perfección a mí.

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  Perfect, Imagine, Persons

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• On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

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  Couple, Average, Talking

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• Una de las razones por las que nos resistimos a tomar decisiones deliberadas es que elegir equivale a cambiar y la mayoría de nosotros, al sentir que el mundo ya es suficientemente impredecible, intentamos minimizar el trauma del cambio en nuestra vida personal.

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  Choices, Feelings, Trying

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• The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

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  Leadership, Strong, Vision

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• A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn.

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  Easter, Cousin, Spring

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• Entonces, si el descenso de los índices de delincuencia coincide con el auge de los videojuegos violentos y el aumento de la violencia en la televisión y el cine, ¿debemos concluir que la violencia mediática está causando el descenso de los índices de delincuencia?

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  Fall, Games, Media

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• Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.

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  Leadership, Inspiration, Essence

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• Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

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  Children, Worrying Too Much, Trying

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• It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

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  Magic, Lovely, Inevitable

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• 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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  Ideas, Choices, Culture

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• Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

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  Educación, Infancia, Oportunidad

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• A nadie le gusta el caos, pero ¿por qué anhelar la estabilidad y la previsibilidad?

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  Chaos, Stability, Crave

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• But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

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  Life Changing, Decision, Bigger

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• I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

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  Unique, Imperfection, Secret

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• Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

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  Believe, Reading, People

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• It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.

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  Leadership, Strong, Australia

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• Los efectos imitadores de la violencia mediática, similares a los atribuidos anteriormente a los westerns, los seriales radiofónicos y los cómics, son fáciles de exagerar.

  Hugh Mackay

  Book, Media, Violence

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• With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.

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  People, Growing, Vehemence

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• Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

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  Children, Games, Play

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• Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

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  Growing Up, Fall, Skills

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• Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

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  Educación, Lectura, Escritura

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