Marshall McLuhan Quotes

With Gutenberg Europe enters the technological phase of progress, when change itself becomes the archetypal norm of social life. (p. 177)

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• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Complexity

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• Life is an incurable disease.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Incurable

• You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Mother
  • My Life

• People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Star

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Different
  • Mistake

• Hip-hop was started on groups.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Hip Hop
  • Groups
  • Started

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Music
  • Fashion

• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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  • Funny
  • Laugh

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Moment

• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Unique

• An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

  

  Byron Katie
  • World
  • Mind
  • Suffering

• When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

  

  Kevin Durant
  • People

• Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Problem
  • Answer
  • Vegan

• Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Lost

• With Gutenberg Europe enters the technological phase of progress, when change itself becomes the archetypal norm of social life. (p. 177)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Life
  • Progress