Best Transmission Quotations
122 Transmission quotes by 111 unique authors
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The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
— Michael Schudson
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There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away,…
— Frederick Lenz
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A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the transmission of attention.
— Frederick Lenz
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We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story,…
— Richard Halliburton
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Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.
— James Fenton
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Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
— Lion Feuchtwanger
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A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics…
— Steve Jobs
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
— George MacDonald
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That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is…
— Thabo Mbeki
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Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.
— Luc Montagnier
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from…
— Maria Montessori
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
— Leo Tolstoy
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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
— Thomas J. Watson
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here;…
— Roland Barthes
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Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us…
— Gilles Deleuze
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Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of…
— Ayn Rand
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He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds…
— Kerstin Gier
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Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars--new cars--that have automatic transmission.…
— Richelle Mead
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
— Will Durant
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Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization…
— Will Durant
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