Marshall McLuhan Quotes

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

Marshall McLuhan

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• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

  

  Sally Struthers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Young

• In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Control
  • Perfect

• Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Done
  • Power
  • Politics

• We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Before
  • Sixteen
  • Partying

• I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Down
  • Train
  • Places

• The path that leads from the persona to the self, from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, … or illusory needs and real needs.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Real
  • True
  • Free

• A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

  

  Alice Munro
  • Real
  • Parents

• If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

  

  Andy Warhol

• I love opportunities to do something I'm not supposed to be able to do. Hell, that's my career.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Career

• My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

  

  Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
  • People

• Is anything worth it?

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

• I have a pretty good ear.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Single
  • Drama

• I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Together
  • Rose
  • Instant

• When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Tomorrow
  • Excited
  • Ask God

• This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

  

  Frederick Leboyer

• I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

  

  John le Carre
  • Up
  • World
  • Mood

• I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Caring
  • I Hate
  • Drone

• We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

  

  Marshall McLuhan