"I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted."

-- William Gibson

#Thinking Quotes #Perception Quotes #Way Quotes

“Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.”
“I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.”
“All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naÃ¯ve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women.”

Source : Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.273, Seven Stories Press
“Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.”
“Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.”
“Do you remember A Wrinkle in Time? It's a good one example. I think the character's name is Meg. I just remember she was a very logical, intelligent, advanced girl. I wouldn't say that I felt like that was who I was, but I wanted to be around her; I wanted to be like her. She had an understanding of science and was incredibly curious - an interesting, complex young girl.”
“Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.”
“We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.”

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