"A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person."

-- Zia Haider Rahman

#Mind Quotes #Reason Quotes #Persuasive Quotes

“I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)”
“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”

Source : David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.365, Three Rivers Press
“Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.”
“The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.”
“As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.”
“I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.”

Source : Rudy Rucker (2014). “The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality”, p.147, Courier Corporation
“The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.”

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