Sense of self Quote by Brigid Schulte

Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow,…

— Jerry Mander

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research…

— Hanna Rosin

“The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe”

— Allen Ginsberg

“Although watching TV is far from being a positive experience—generally people report feeling passive, weak, rather irritable, and sad when doing it—at least the…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives… [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your…

— Raymond Chandler

“The main purpose of TV, to make you believe in everything you see around you, is real. And then, direct you, by using your…

— VicDo

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open…

— Serge Daney

Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn't reveal itself, but it distorts everything.

— Richard Dreyfuss

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes…

— Angus T. Jones

Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can…

— Rudolf Arnheim

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

— Dan Levy