Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Today

• 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

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

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Memories

• Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Internet
  • Shopping

• At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • School
  • Kids
  • American

• Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • Day
  • Moment

• On the field, I went from an anonymous redshirt to a short-yardage specialist to a Heisman Trophy candidate. Off the field, I showed up as a wild kid and grew up.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Up
  • Kid
  • Anonymous

• Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Good
  • Jealous
  • Pure

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • True
  • Reason
  • Like

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• I like to improvise.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Like
  • Improvise

• There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Foundation
  • Environmental

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

  

  Om Puri
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Funny

• Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

  

  Jane Rule
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Music should be demanding for the listener. You can gain more out of it that way. I always try to leave space in the music for the listener to have their own experience of it, so it's not bombarded with only one meaning.

  

  Einar Selvik
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Listener

• When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Beginning
  • Gratitude

• Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Experience
  • Understanding