Evgeny Morozov Quotes

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

Evgeny Morozov

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• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Different
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• Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Long
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• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Good
  • Very
  • Sciences

• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • War
  • Lost
  • Pain

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
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• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Single
  • Child

• As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kid
  • Read
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• Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Light
  • Struggle
  • Angry

• Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.

  

  Rachel True
  • Life
  • Why
  • Happy

• I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Young

• I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Amazing
  • Kid
  • Come

• Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Thug

• Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Science

• To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature

• I'm the type of guy who, right as I'm taking off, I'm deciding, 'Hey, where do I want to go today?'

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Guy
  • Today

• You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

  

  Peter Shumlin
  • Remember
  • Beautiful
  • Small

• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Sweet
  • Summer

• I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Spiritual

• When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Energy
  • Simple
  • Positive

• In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Energy
  • Alternatives
  • Dedicated