"The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears."

-- Reid Hoffman

#Issues Quotes #People Quotes #Social Media Quotes

“Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.”
“By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.”

Source : "The Road to Discontent: Britain in the '70s". PBS Interveiw, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2000.
“I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas... Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.”

Source : "'Time' Is Right for Songwriter Ward" by Jill Menze, www.reuters.com. January 10, 2009.
“A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”
“I think Trump's presidency represents a completely different model than what we're used to. And I think to your point, yes, he is a great communicator, you know? He uses Twitter to great effect. I just wish he could stick more to the truth, because it's a very effective way of communicating directly with the American people.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback. A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed.”

Source : "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being".
“Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".”
“Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.”

Source : "The Amazing Success Story of ‘Spiri Who?’" by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1970.

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