Devices Quotes

• It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."

  

  Carlos Alomar
  • Sound
  • Individual
  • Experiments

• A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Enemy

• Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Ballerinas

• There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Virtue
  • Economy
  • Industry

• People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Community
  • Workplace
  • Devices

• Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

  

  Gerard Cox
  • Intellectual
  • Concepts
  • Devices

• Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Order
  • Mechanic
  • Quantum

• I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Creating
  • Theatrical

• It's not just that we all as individuals should reevaluate our relationship with our devices - maybe you should, on a personal level - but in terms of balancing the micro and the macro and the personal and the structural, it's actually a bigger issue than you and your phone addiction.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Relationship
  • Individual
  • Term

• We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

  

  Monica Edwards
  • Technology
  • Devices
  • Electronic

• This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.

  

  Stephen Elop
  • Battle
  • Devices
  • Ecosystems

• Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Devices
  • Plot
  • Blair

• It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Evil
  • Existence
  • Deny

• The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Produce
  • Afghanistan
  • Landmines

• I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Devices
  • Product category

• One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.

  

  Charles E. Allen
  • Terrorism
  • Concern
  • Materials

• One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Emotions
  • Devices
  • Rhyme

• Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Habit
  • Discover
  • Suffer

• With Emotion AI, we can inject humanity back into our connections, enabling not only our devices to better understand us, but fostering a stronger connection between us as individuals.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Better
  • Connection
  • Emotion

• Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Civilization
  • Devices
  • Enormous

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