#ted

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. ↗

— Clive Davis

#opportunity #presented #seize #you

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate. ↗

— Seth Godin

#communication #connected #connection #group #groups

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#beings #between #communicator #compound #computer

We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#self-inflicted-pain #violence #communication

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#community #competition #giftedness #modern #printing-press

A blanket could be used to represent my feelings for you. I think it’s slightly more communicative than me giving you a scrap of paper with a doodle of an erect penis. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. ↗

— Phillip Adams

#dangerous #diabolical #men #politicians #separated

I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up. “So let’s say Friday night? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#dating

All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.' ↗

— Rosario Dawson

#being #car #champagne #easy #go

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#become #center #men #men and women #moment