Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Marshall McLuhan

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• It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Game
  • Football
  • Sports

• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Moment

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Always
  • Destiny

• If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Gun

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Always
  • See

• I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • World
  • Want
  • Player

• Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Think

• Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • She
  • America
  • Same

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Father
  • City

• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Walking

• First of all, directing was the most incredible experience. When you run a television show, directing is something that not many people actually get the time to do because you're so consumed with everything that's going on. You can't just disappear.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Experience
  • Incredible
  • Directing

• No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

  

  Karen Marie Moning
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I haven't got a clue about what I want," the Universal Law is going to say, "Listen, mate, if you haven't got a clue, neither have I.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Law
  • Form
  • Manifestation

• I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.

  

  Ken Jeong
  • Comedy
  • Math

• Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Experience
  • Perception