Damian Thompson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The success of any user generated content-related project should be judged in the long term. Try not to use it as a one-off campaign activation idea. Think of it instead as the beginning or continuation of an ongoing dialogue with your consumers.
-- Damian Thompson

#Business #Thinking #Ideas
People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.
-- Damian Thompson

#Attitude #Believe #People
Can a president whoâ€™s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?
-- Damian Thompson

#Land #Style #Chinese
Experts now talk about the â€˜nutrition transitionâ€™, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.
-- Damian Thompson

#Country #Moving #Transition
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.
-- Damian Thompson

#Brain #Battle #Different
Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?
-- Damian Thompson

#Land #Style #Chinese
Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.
-- Damian Thompson

#Country #Moving #Transition

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.
If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
Art is not the spiritual side of business.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

Damian Thompson famous quotes

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