Messages Quotes

• Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

  

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson
  • Speak
  • Television
  • Terms

• I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.

  

  Nathaniel Adams Coles
  • Messages

• White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

  

  Katherine Losse
  • Judge
  • Discovered
  • Facebook

• I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.

  

  Michael Sweet Boston
  • Important
  • Band
  • Hands

• For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Messages
  • Expressions
  • Evolutionary

• Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Children
  • Ability
  • Clean

• My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.

  

  Alton Ellis
  • Simple
  • Intellectual
  • Humane

• If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

  

  William James
  • May
  • Universe
  • Religion

• It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Easier
  • Compelling
  • Microphones

• The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Church
  • Regret
  • Taught

• We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Messages
  • Spread
  • Solidarity

• Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?

  

  Seth Godin
  • Problem
  • Marketing
  • Fronts

• Sometimes you're pushing and what you want to do is not coming with ease; doors are not opening. A lot of times we're pushing against resistance. If one looks closely, there is often a message in that resistance: "Wait a minute, maybe it's not what you're supposed to be doing."

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Sometimes
  • Looks
  • Doors

• To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Messages
  • Abstinence

• I'm wondering how someone who goes around wearing a wedding ring succeeded in the dating pool. Normally a wedding ring sends a flashing "Do Not Enter" message - except to those looking for flings with married people.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Wonder
  • Married
  • Dating

• If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

  

  Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Writing
  • Causes
  • Havens

• The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

  

  Morgan Brittany
  • Trying
  • Producers
  • Uplifting

• A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Window

• When loved ones can’t seem to reach you, they’ll try until eventually they find a way. I find great solace in knowing that Dad was able to send energy to soothe me through others. We should all be grateful for those kinds of signs and messages; they’re priceless.

  

  Allison DuBois
  • Messages
  • Signs
  • Solace

• Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

  

  Seth Godin
  • Organization
  • Passionate
  • Grows

• I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Communicate
  • Psychedelic

• Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.

  

  Michael Moss
  • Children
  • Eating
  • Overwhelmed

• George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Journalist
  • Fiction Writer
  • Political Person

• If you have a great message but no great way to entertain, people won't want to hear it.

  

  Jonny Diaz
  • Want
  • Way
  • Messages

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