Devices Quotes

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

  

  Gerard Cox
  • Intellectual
  • Concepts
  • Devices

• 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

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

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Enemy

• My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • Communication
  • Really
  • Because

• Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.

  

  will.i.am
  • Fashion
  • Becoming
  • Devices

• From the boardroom to the bedroom, we're connected 24/7, yet loneliness is at an all-time high. More people are reaching for mobile devices than for the hand of someone in need. Where did our humanity go?

  

  Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
  • Humanity
  • Need
  • Loneliness

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

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Economy
  • Virtue
  • Industry

• 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

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

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Creating
  • Theatrical

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

  

  Stephen Elop
  • Battle
  • Devices
  • Ecosystems

• 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

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

  

  Monica Edwards
  • Technology
  • Devices
  • Electronic

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

  

  Charles E. Allen
  • Terrorism
  • Concern
  • Materials

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Civilization
  • Devices
  • Enormous

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