Maryanne Wolf Quotes

Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing.

Maryanne Wolf

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Ever since I started playing records, it's been such a fabulous life. The idea of going back down the pits would be a nightmare.

Jimmy Savile

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I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

Mawra Hocane

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

John Ruskin

BeautifulTrueNothingWhich

Just getting to the NFC Championship isn't good enough. Winning the Super Bowl is what the expectations are.

Mike Daniels

GoodWinningExpectationsEnough

My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.

Jason Wu

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I feel that it's lovely when, as a user, you're not aware of the complexity.

Jonathan Ive

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I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

Don Miguel Ruiz

TruthScienceLightSoulMedical

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

Dick Cheney

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You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

Dawn Olivieri

PositiveChangeConfidenceCharacter

I've definitely seen people get angry or really uncomfortable with stuff I've made in the past. And my stand-up, if you could call what I do stand-up, is quite aggressive, too.

Brett Gelman

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If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

Bryan Callen

PeopleMeStartYouYearsUp

I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

William Least Heat-Moon

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