"The technology broadens an individual's social field massively and at the same time makes it much, much easier and cheaper to consume gossip. We have the same appetite for gossip, but now its acquisition is even easier than grabbing sugary and fatty foods off a supermarket shelf. And look where that got us. When you watch people in public desperately punching away at their machines, it's hard not to think of addictions."

-- Zia Haider Rahman

#Technology Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.”
“The phrase â€˜the Internet never forgetsâ€™ is complete bollocks”
“Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.”
“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”
“The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do....”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“TV is a big business. In some ways, it's surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and invest in these characters, and give up so much of their time to follow these people's stories.”

Source : "Jamie Bell Talks TURN, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.”
“Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful.”

Source : Diana Loomans (2011). “100 Ways to Build Self-Esteem and Teach Values”, p.32, H J Kramer

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