Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Environment is process, not container. (p. 30)

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• Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • You
  • Sometimes

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Environment
  • Aesthetic
  • Accused

• As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Balance
  • Revolution

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • Great
  • Running

• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Environment

• I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Why
  • Change
  • Environment

• I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Kind

• In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Corruption

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.

  

  Halsey
  • You
  • Environment
  • Someone

• A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Way
  • Environment
  • Place

• Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Environment

• Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Environment

• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Kind
  • Environment
  • Behavior

• I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Live
  • Art
  • Environment

• It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Time
  • Environment
  • Artist

• I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Freedom

• Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Confidence

• I really loved working with Michael Caine. He's a really skilled and experienced actor. I learn something from everybody, but when you work with somebody like that, you actually learn things you can put in your toolbox, things about craft. Not necessarily life lessons, but actual things he knows that you can pick up.

  

  Bruce McGill
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Time
  • Book

• Environment is process, not container. (p. 30)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Environment