"Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century."

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Source : Howard Rheingold, Anthony Weeks (2012). “Net Smart: How to Thrive Online”, p.2, MIT Press

Howard Rheingold

#Knowing Quotes #Twenties Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.”
“Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'”
“Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's not going to be easier in the real world, surely.”
“Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.”
“I think I am basically a happy person.”
“What I have learned first and foremost is to follow your instincts. As a filmmaker, there are no rules as to how to play this game. That is a big problem I think that exists in the education on how to be a filmmaker or how to make movies.”
“She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.”
“It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!”

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