Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

Marshall McLuhan

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• I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.

  

  Sam Smith
  • You
  • Hate
  • See

• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Organization

• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Healthy
  • Eating
  • Meat

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Society
  • Best
  • Value

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Perfectionist

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• I am just one human being.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Human
  • Human being

• It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Play
  • Against
  • Your

• In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Culture
  • Need
  • Therapy

• The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • London

• Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Remember
  • Reality
  • Alone

• I started listening to The-Dream a lot. That's when I really got into writing songs. I like the way he put lyrics and makes his songs. So I was like, 'All right,' and I just started writing. That's when I started wanting to be a songwriter.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Listening

• I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Character
  • Way
  • Interesting

• Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

  

  T-Pain
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Doing

• You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Food
  • Party
  • Be Logical

• If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Light
  • Attention
  • Identity