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Patterns Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with…
- The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life.…
- Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of…
- Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.
- Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of…
- Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured…
- I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time…
- When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake…
- The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
- Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the…
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake…
More Patterns Quotes
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know… — Germaine Greer
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents… — Ezra Taft Benson
- All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control… — Isaiah Berlin
- Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi