"The first problem of communication is getting people's attention."

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Chip Heath

#Communication Quotes #People Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.195, Random House
“We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.”
“A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.41, Cambridge University Press
“Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out.”
“Ask the next question.”
“I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!”
“I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.”

Source : "He Hanged Them High: An Authentic Account of the Fanatical Judge Who Hanged Eighty-Eight Men". Book by Homer Croy, p. 218, 1952.
“Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.”

Source : Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.4, MIT Press

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