Assumptions Quote by Marshall McLuhan Download Open image “Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.” — Marshall McLuhan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assumptions Change
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“If we cannot express our assumptions explicitly in ways that others can understand and build upon, there can be no larger process of testing… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful. — John Barnes Copy Share Image
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. — John Barnes Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting. — Craig Stevens Copy Share Image
When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going… — Craig Stevens Copy Share Image
“While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Civilizaton rests on the assumption that the universe is kindly disposed towards mankind and intended for our benefit. Imagine the upheaval were it to… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are eager enough to start thinking on their own… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong. — David Beckham Copy Share Image
“Words in the head are sticky and social creatures – when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“The professor argues against measuring effectiveness in the shallow short-term in the "fierce humanities," for teaching that seeks not merely learning, but unlearning, that… — Cary Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
