“I would say that to listen is to become aware. To become truly informed. You will discover whatever you do.” Quote by Gordon Hempton
“If you're going to listen, you have to be willing to be changed by what you've heard. My life has gone through so many changes. I'm sixty-two years old right now, and I'm as busy changing now as I was when I was a teenager, or in my twenties. Every day is different. Every day brings new information.” DifferentChangedBusyTeenager Author:Gordon Hempton
“I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.” EarthJoyListeningTough Author:Gordon Hempton
“I'm very thankful, hearing impairment or not, that I've brought listening into my life. I will never say that I'm a good listener, however. Thinking that I was a good listener was one thing that kept me from being a good listener. It's a very dangerous thought. I just want to be better.” ThinkingDangerousListeningGood ListenerVery Thankful Author:Gordon Hempton
“I love bells, clocks, watches - and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing.” Love IsClock Author:Charlotte Cotton
“Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.” Author:Charlotte Cotton
“The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.” RealRadicalReal Beauty Author:Charlotte Cotton
“More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their virtual identity in the physical, analogue version of themselves. They have a much more pluralistic understanding of the self. I don't think we'd be here now in this amazing sexual and gender revolution without the online space where young people can see and share other versions of identity and sexuality.” PeopleThinkingUnderstandingShareIdentityRevolutionGenderSexualityIntimacyOnline Author:Charlotte Cotton
“There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or a common secret. By allowing those boundaries to be porous, certain forms of oppression may be lifted.” CommonSecretBoundariesOppression Author:Charlotte Cotton
“The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.” PeopleGivingRealEnoughLimitationAutonomy Author:Charlotte Cotton
“I have to admit to you, I am the person who's done probably the least analysis on the selfie, because it's a bit like pornography for me. It's this masturbatory, repetitive act that I'd rather wasn't part of my routine.” DonePornographyRepetitive Author:Charlotte Cotton