"Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)"

-- Neil Postman

#Knowing Quotes #Television Quotes #World Quotes

“I think when we were starting off, I picked a group of women to represent me. The top tiers of everyone that I've worked with are women. It felt more comfortable because they can relate to me.”
“I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously. I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.”

Source : "Infosys is resilient enough: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw". Interview with Harichandan Arakali, economictimes.indiatimes.com. December 23, 2013.
“I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem."”
“Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didnâ€™t get any meaning from it,”
“I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.”
“I'm a blue-shirt guy.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.”
“The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.188, New Directions Publishing

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