Joshua Meyrowitz famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.
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There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.
-- Joshua Meyrowitz -
People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort of reading them. Electronic images and sounds, however, thrust themselves into people's environments, and the messages are received with little effort. In a sense, people must go after print messages, but electronic messages reach out and touch people. People will expose themselves to information in electronic media that they would never bother to read about in a book.
-- Joshua Meyrowitz
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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
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Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
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Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.
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I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.
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We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
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Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
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Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
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I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
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Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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