Mackay Quotes & Sayings

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones. — Harvey MacKay

Ye are different, Emma. I doona need ye in order to survive. But surviving is no' the same as living. Or the same as feeling human again. I am alive when I'm with you. Ye feed my soul. (Angus MacKay) — Kerrelyn Sparks

Truth ... and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate. — Charles Mackay

The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts. — David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder — David J. C. MacKay

If you can't say yes, it's no. Don't sugarcoat it. Don't talk yourself into yes just to seem like a nice guy. No one ever went broke because he or she said "NO" too often. — Harvey MacKay

A dream is always a bargain no matter what you pay for it — Harvey MacKay

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry. — Harvey MacKay

Never hit a target you don't need to hit. Ever. One murder gets the police interested, two gets them excited.
(The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter) — Malcom Mackay

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. — Hugh Mackay

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences. — Harvey MacKay

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories. — George Mackay Brown

As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly. — Harvey MacKay

I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties. — Peter MacKay

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. — Hugh Mackay

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic. — David Mackay

If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind. — Harvey MacKay

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough. — Harvey MacKay

Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by. — Harvey MacKay

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders. — Harvey MacKay

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities. — Harvey MacKay

The sale begins when the customer says yes. — Harvey MacKay

Ideas without action are worthless. — Harvey MacKay

Then Gerry heard through his helmet radio the two most dreaded words any crew never wanted to hear during a space mission; Oh sh*t — Scott Mackay

Failure is not falling down but staying down. — Harvey MacKay

I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village. — David Mackay

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled. — Charles Mackay

You'll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer. — Harvey MacKay

America is ripe for a service revolution. — Harvey MacKay

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them. — Harvey MacKay

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts. — Harvey MacKay

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude. — Harvey MacKay

I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic. — David Mackay

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work. — Harvey MacKay

The world ceased to exist.
She was not a gunn, and he was not a MacKay. They were man and woman. Her thoughts spun. Her emotions whirled... — Victoria Roberts

Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty.
'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.'
They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'.
'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan "Safety First". But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me. — Muriel Spark

I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot. — David Mackay

Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else. — Harvey MacKay

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas. — Harvey MacKay

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

Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open. — Harvey MacKay

It was as if, once she was married, the woman had washed her hands of the girl. However, the welts on her back had been the final straw. Aye, they would leave for MacKay first thing tomorrow morning, Ross determined. He would take her home, where they could consummate their marriage in the bed where she would one day give birth to their children. Annabel's life here was done. She was his now. — Lynsay Sands

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style. — Peter MacKay

Among the millions of North Koreans who took part in the mass display of grief for Kim Il-sung, how many were faking? Were they crying for the death of the Great Leader or for themselves? Or were they crying because everybody else was? If there is one lesson taught by scholars of mass behavior, from the historians of the Salem witch hunts to Charles Mackay, author of the classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, hysteria is infectious. In the middle of a crowd of crying people, the only natural human reaction is to cry oneself. — Barbara Demick

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me. — Charles Mackay

My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan. — S.A. Tawks

I'm a workaholic. — Peter MacKay

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. — Hugh Mackay

In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans. — David Mackay

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option. — Peter MacKay

If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It's an important skill to develop. — Harvey MacKay

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know. — Harvey MacKay

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. — Harvey MacKay

The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated to our own efforts. There is only one other lesson that success should teach us: Be as amazed by your own success as your friends are. If you truly are, you stand the best chance to repeat it. — Harvey MacKay

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories. — Peter MacKay

Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid. — David J. C. MacKay

Mackay told us that the Children's Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in Germany and France, and selling them in North Africa as slaves. Thirty thousand children volunteered, thinking they were going to Palestine. They were no doubt idle and deserted children who generally swarm in great cities, nurtured on vice and daring, said Mackay, and ready for anything. — Kurt Vonnegut

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free. — Charles Mackay

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new. — Harvey MacKay

Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard. — Finn Mackay

By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.' — David Mackay

Cyberbullying is an issue that affects all of us and demands that Canadians work together to put an end to it. This national public awareness campaign is an important step in protecting our children online. Along with our government's introduction of Bill C-13, the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, we are taking clear action to tackle cyberbullying. — Peter MacKay

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled. — David Mackay

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL. D. — Kurt Vonnegut

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that. — George MacKay

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps — George MacKay

If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I'd say it's the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts. — Harvey MacKay

As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies. — Harvey MacKay

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan. — Peter MacKay

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that. — Harvey MacKay

Make the second effort your second nature. — Harvey MacKay

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open. — Harvey MacKay

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. — Charles Mackay

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well. — Harvey MacKay

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people. — Harvey MacKay

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does. — Harvey MacKay

For the real winners, there are no finish lines. — Harvey MacKay

I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from. — David J. C. MacKay

You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen-not just money, but respect. — Harvey MacKay

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation. — Charles Mackay

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? — Hugh Mackay

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it. — Harvey MacKay

There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil. The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us. — Charles Mackay

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges. — Harvey MacKay

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. — Harvey MacKay

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible. — Harvey MacKay

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life. — Harvey MacKay

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality. — George MacKay

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. — Harvey MacKay

Mackay had a low opinion of all Crusades. The Children's Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups. O'Hare read this handsome passage out loud: History in her solemn page informs us that the crusaders were but ignorant and savage men, that their motives were those of bigotry unmitigated, and that their pathway was one of blood and tears. Romance, on the other hand, dilates upon their piety and heroism, and portrays, in her most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity. — Kurt Vonnegut

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation. — Harvey MacKay

Don't confuse visibility with credibility. — Harvey MacKay

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates? — Hugh Mackay

Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes. — Harvey MacKay

If you have no destination, you'll never get there. — Harvey MacKay

Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign. — Harvey MacKay

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist. — Harvey MacKay

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

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes. — David Mackay

I'm letting ye court my sister. Give me your word that ye will nae tell anyone what ye saw, especially Anna."
Ceana shifted from foot to foot.
"What did ye see anyway?"
His eyes grew amused.l
"I didnae witness ye lock lips with the MacKay man, if that's what ye're asking. — Victoria Roberts