#city

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. ↗

— John Berger

#before #century #imposed #natural #other

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream. ↗

— John Berger

#could #culture #dream #far #life

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#correspondingly #directly #greater #higher #invested

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#appliances #bulb #electricity #got #home

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#attention #attorney #because #board #city

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#cinema #physiological

Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#attractiveness #city #designed #his #increase

She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#food

The fact is, many people do not know how treat themselves and are experts at putting themselves down. In fact, if most of us were in a relationship with ourselves, we would break up with us, given how badly we treat ourselves. ↗

— Ramani Durvasula

#love #relationships #attitude

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#motivation #priorities #simplicity #wisdom #inspirational