Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.
Quotes to Explore
-
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
-
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
-
I am healthy and happy.
-
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
-
Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
-
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
-
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
-
If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
-
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
-
I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
-
I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
-
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
-
When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
-
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
-
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
-
I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
-
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
-
They don't always use dwarfs, unfortunately. They shouldn't be allowed to do that! How dare they do 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and not have dwarfs!
-
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
-
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
-
God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.
-
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.
