"We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials."

-- Jeff Noon

#Media Quotes #Mind Quotes #Form Quotes

“But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it ...”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.146, Open Road Media
“One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.”
“Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and the feeling of being 'unworthy'. This has encouraged people to hand over their right to think and feel to a Bible and a priest because they have not had the confidence or self-belief to realize that they have a right, and an infinite gift, to make their own decisions”
“The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice in Charge”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
“Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.”

Source : Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
“It's great to have actors who are often cast against type.”
“I don't like concrete jungles.”

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