“People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.” PeopleThinkingWaySelfIndividualAbilityChangedCommunicationMassSelf Absorbed Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in America is the ability of a free press to keep the public accurately and honestly informed about its government.” WayYearsGovernmentAmericaAbilityOne ThingMediaStyleChangedPressesHonestlyFreedom Of SpeechFree PressYear One Author:Candice S. Miller
“Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.” MenNeedsTodayBlackCommunityAbilityCareersChangedCharityAthleteConcentrating Author:Jim Brown
“Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.” HumansSocialAbilityViolenceMediaHavensChangedInternetCapacityFundamentalsSocial MediaAttributesInteractionPropensitySocial Interaction Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.” WorldWayHumansMadeTimeUnderstandingChangeAbilityChangedStandardsDuesSavingMade ItClockZoneSavingsDaylightTelegraphTime ZonesSaving TimeDaylight Savings Author:James Gleick
“And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.” AbilityRolesChangedNewsOrganizationAbuseInstitutionsTraditionalJournalismJournalistTransformedSusceptibility Author:Joan Konner
“There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.” BelieveDifferentReasonPastAbilityChangedMajorityViolentMinoritiesNo Reason Book:In our time Source: In our time
“I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.” ThinkingYearsI CanIdeasAbleSoundAbilityKnowingRecordsStyleChangedStrongerImprovementConclusionCompareLogicalChordsEditsReferring Author:Gary Bartz