Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.

Douglas Rushkoff

• Power
• Red
• Shoes

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Potential
  • Ending

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Food
  • Pet
  • Cats

• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Want
  • Tyrants
  • Seldom

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Business
  • Career
  • Look

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Intelligent
  • Living
  • Capable

• I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Always

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Better
  • Face
  • Election

• My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Children

• Each of our senses makes its own space, but no sense can function in isolation. Only as sight relates the touch, or kinaesthesia, or sound, can the eye see.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Space

• Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • She
  • Power
  • Eyes

• Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • German
  • Italian
  • Ancient

• I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

  

  Craig Robinson

• There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

  

  Bill Nye
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Power
  • Red
  • Shoes