Context Quote by Neil Postman Download Open image ““With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.”” — Neil Postman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Context Continuous Continuous Incoherent Incoherent Incoherent Present Media Television Television Vault
“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.” — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.” — Steve Whigham Copy Share Image
“Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives” — David Niven Copy Share Image
“We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind.” — David Simon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.” — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
“In lots of ways, television purveys and enables dreams, and most of these dreams involve some sort of transcendence of average daily life. The… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Key element of television programming, the characters must watch the programming themselves.” — Moonn Tzu Copy Share Image
“I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.” — M.E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.” — Jean-Philippe Toussaint Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does do is give me a context for living.” — James Bryan Smith Copy Share Image
People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words]. — Keli Goff Copy Share Image
The United States is a very important country to us in the international context. But on other hand, Angola is also important to the… — Joao Lourenco Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Captaining your country, going out at Wembley, captaining Arsenal to 10 trophies, playing your first game - they're all amazing things. But, phew, saving… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
With 'I Want Action,' I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was tongue-in-cheek. — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think where a lot of the stuff came from is that it started as something else and then it was transformed into something… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
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