Browsing Quotes, page 72
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The images of the tragedy confirm the world’s paranoia as they are instantly beamed back to the crowds in San Francisco, Beijing, and London. Desensitized viewers are delivered their daily dose of fear; the horrific stats scroll across the bottom of our flickering screens. There is no time for context as the network cuts to commercials.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The idea that youth culture might change things seems naive and quaint in an age where new trends are sold back to us before we even knew they were happening.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Bohemias. Alternative Subcultures. They were a crucial aspect of industrial civilization in the two previous centuries. They were where industrial civilization went to dream. A sort of unconscious R&D, exploring alternate social strategies. Each one would have a dress code, characteristic forms of artistic expression, a substance or substances of choice, and a set of sexual values at odds with those of the culture at large. And they did, frequently, have locales with which they became associated. But they became extinct.”
“Extinct?”
“We started picking them before they could ripen.”Speaker: William GibsonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Hip-hop took over from the inside, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But now it’s just a herd of sheep dressed in adorable little limited-edition wolf outfits with dorky matching sneakers and fitted hats. The politics, rage, and rebellion of groups such as Public Enemy have been replaced by a generation more concerned with Public Enemy member Flavor Flav’s VH1 reality show 'Flavor of Love,’ confirming hip-hop’s worst fear: a wack planet.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mainstream news media are being undermined by bloggers and citizen journalists offering a wider variety of local and niche coverage. But they are also regularly beating the pros at the networks to some of the world’s biggest stories. This is happening because journalism doesn’t work quite as it should anymore. As bloggers dig deeper and wider, the mainstream news networks are becoming increasingly shallow.
In June 2005, the major U.S. network and cable television stations ran 6,248 segments on the Michael Jackson child molestation trial. There were 1,534 segments discussing Tom Cruise, and 405 on a runaway bride from Georgia. Dramatic fighting broke out in eastern Sudan that June, an intensely newsworthy event, especially when one takes into account the largely ignored steady-state genocide in Darfur, which had killed more than four hundred thousand people in the previous two years. A total of 126 segments ran mentioning Sudan. Michael Jackson got fifty times more coverage than what was fast becomeing one of the largest humanitarian crises of the decade.Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 10:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In America there is no anti-status quo media. It’s all the same four big companies, and they’re all afraid of losing Budweiser so it’s just like, there’s no voice. 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ is the most watched 'news’ program by people under thirty-five and it’s a spoof comedy show. There is a huge market out there of disenfranchised kids.”
Speaker: Shane SmithPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The interesting thing is not to remain the same. To me that’s what’s boring; I don’t really care to see fifty-year-old people going around in punk leather jackets. The point is to stay unclassifiable. Then they don’t own you.
Speaker: Richard HellPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 10:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If I could leave one single idea with you, it is that idea. Whenever you feel “short” or in “need” of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Always remember to have fun. This is only a game. Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they’re more afraid of losing. That is why I found school so silly. In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. The same is true for learning to ride a bike. I still have scars on my knees, but today I can ride a bike without thinking. The same is true for getting rich. Unfortunately the main reason most people are not rich is because they are terrified of losing. Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Retirement does not mean not working. To my wife and me, it means that barring unforseen cataclysmic changes, we can work or not work, and our wealth grows automatically, staying way ahead of inflation. I guess it means freedom. The assets are large enough to grow by themselves. It’s like planting a tree. you water it for years and then one day it doesn’t need you anymore. Its roots have gone down deep enough. Then, the tree provides shade for your enjoyment.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Rich dad went on to explain that the rich know that money is an illusion, truly like the carrot for the donkey. It’s only out of fear and greed that the illusion of money is held together by billions of people thinking that money is real. Money is really made up. It was only because of the illusion of confidence and the ignorance of the masses that the house of cards stood standing.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. It’s self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keeps people trapped.”
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Speaker: SenecaSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most endeavors are like learning to speak a foreign language: to be correct 95% of the time requires six months of concentrated effort, whereas to be correct 98% of the time requires 20-30 years. Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest. Perfection is a good ideal and direction to have, but recognize it for what it is: an impossible destination.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
Speaker: Frank WilczekSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
Speaker: Paula PoundstoneSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
Speaker: Oscar WildeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What a man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
Speaker: Viktor FranklSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.
Speaker: Joseph CampbellSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Speaker: Anatole FranceSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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