"Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration."

-- Neil Postman

#Ideas Quotes #Community Quotes #Design Quotes

“Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.”
“When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago.”
“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.”

Source : Edwin H. Friedman (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.9, Church Publishing, Inc.
“Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.”
“The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.”
“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”
“What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there should be no official relationship of any character between government and any church or many churches, and no levying of taxes for the support of any church, or many churches, or all churches, or any institution conducted by any of them.”
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myselfâ€”if they could live in my memoriesâ€”would anyone, anyone, love me?”

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