"Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from……" — Tom Chatfield
"Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words."
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Tom Chatfield
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12 Quotes by Tom Chatfield
Tom Chatfield has 12 quotes on this site.
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Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of…
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Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects:…
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I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea…
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From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world…
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If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere…
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The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading…
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As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent…
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We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks…
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For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with…
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Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
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Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people…
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More Actions Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
— Red Auerbach
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
— Abu Bakr
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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