Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

Douglas Rushkoff

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Security
  • NATO
  • Cornerstone

• I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Life
  • Goal
  • Stage

• One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Internet

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.

  

  LaToya London
  • She
  • Style
  • Same

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Voice
  • Victim
  • Oriented

• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • End
  • Very

• Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growing
  • Opportunities

• This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.

  

  Arthur Golden
  • People
  • Time

• There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel
  • Running
  • Air

• It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Up
  • American
  • Patience

• But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • World
  • Soul
  • Spiritual

• I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Thing
  • Very

• The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Real
  • Experience
  • America