“The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people will find that they are already very close to being the parent they are striving to be. Other people will find reading books or blog articles to be very helpful and some other people might benefit most by engaging in discussions on the internet.” PeopleWayMindBookDifferentSelfMightReadingIndividualParentInternetBenefitsStriveBest WayDiscussionHelpfulArticlesReading BooksEngagingBlogsMind Set Author:Timothy Carey
“As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down in notebooks or in word documents/the Internet. I feel like these habits and a generally good memory of people/the interactions I have with them (due to studying people having always been my main interest in life) have lead me to being very accurate in things I write in stories/essays.” PeopleFeelsWritingStoriesSocialInterestMemoriesSituationStudyInternetHabitConversationDuesInteractionAccurateDocumentsEssaysNotebookLeading MeGood MemoriesRerunsInterest In Life Author:Marie Calloway
“I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internet/blogging/other structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWritingHas BeensReasonSeemsSchoolYoungInterestingGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsInternetHigh SchoolDirectStructureMiserableTaoSimilarityBloggingNew GenerationYoung Writers Author:Marie Calloway
“The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.” PeopleWritingYearsLongTwoEnoughWould BeJobsThreeReadingStuffWeekMaterialsInternetEasierSixLong TimeScaryI RealizedVersionsBoredDiariesLong Time AgoFunny ThingsHad Enough Author:Jason Mulgrew
“Maybe it's just a humanising thing to realise that a ton of people in bands that make really exciting music, are just big nerds. And you know, maybe the Internet's done a lot in just exposing that long-held secret.” PeopleKnowsLongDoneBigsSecretInternetBandExcitingRealisingNerdExposing Author:Chris Baio
“I think previously, when fathers and sons argued with each other, they would still face each other and face each other's feelings, but now, the relationships between people has become much more abstracted. I think, actually, in China, the gulf that exists between the pre- and post-internet generations is more vast.” PeopleThinkingStillsFeelingsFacesFatherGenerationsSonInternetChinaPostsFather And Son Author:Jia Zhangke
“When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic.” PeopleKindMeanHas BeensEffectsInternetComputerMiracleDramaticChipsMiraculousCellphone Author:Bill Gates
“People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think, going forward, a lot of it is going to be videos, getting richer and richer.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantYearsInternetTenYears AgoVideoConsumedGet Rich Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansLooksImportantRememberWatchesInformationCollegeMaterialsInternetNewsLook UpGoogleWikipediaDownloadsWatch Movie Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't understand, because so much of it is Internet-based. Our generation specifically really relates to it, because we were the first people to discover the Internet and most of us can maybe navigate the Internet better than our parents can. All this information you could ever possibly know is right at our fingertips, not to mention the fact you can meet anyone!” PeopleKnowsFirstsFactsShowsParentGenerationsOne ThingInformationMomInternetConcernedMy MomRelateGrandparentNavigateOur GenerationFingertips Author:Sarah Steele
“You can go to these chat-lines. It's not hard it's really easy. Another thing the show makes clear is not talking about these issues is what leads kids to go on the Internet and find out the information themselves. And then they come across people like Mr. Healy wanting to meet them in the park. That's what leads to these kind of more-dangerous things.” PeopleKindHardShowsKidsEasyLinesTalkingIssuesClearDangerousInformationGoes OnInternetParksNot TalkingDangerous Things Author:Sarah Steele
“We're in a society where no one's putting a gun to your head and making you use your phone, but some people start to crack. "I Want the Heartbeat" is about the downside of it. People can and do break up friendships and relationships because of the internet, and that can't be good. You have to find a balance. You can't let it be the boss of you.” PeopleWantHeartUseBreakInternetBalanceGunPhonesBe GoodBossCracksHeartbeatFriendships And Relationships Author:Johnny Marr
“I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.” PeopleThinkingInternetDistance Author:Dee Dee Ramone
“I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.” PeopleKnowsSoundVoiceMy OwnInternetImpression Author:Bradford Cox
“[Some people] put their work on the internet and check every day how many people look, how many people made contact, but I don't have internet, I don't have a hand-phone, I don't have fax, I don't have email. I just have old-fashioned telephone and letters.” PeopleLooksMadeHandsInternetLettersPhonesChecksContactTelephonesOld FashionedEmailFax Author:Erro
“I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base, and we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos... not to put those two things in the same light!” PeopleFirstsTwoUseLightWatchesInternetFirst TimeAlbumsAccessVideoTwo ThingsGrantsReviewsKittenEqualizer Author:Alan Palomo
“Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet, it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black. It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds - let alone 15 minutes - to decide what you think about it.” PeopleThinkingOpportunityBlackFansMinutesInternetSecondsReceptiveRebeccaChoosy Author:Alan Palomo
“That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.” PeopleEnoughMightNumbersWonderInternetRetweet Author:Aaron Paul
“I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"” PeopleWantPersonsStuffInternet Author:Jack Tatum
“One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, and to listen to all sorts of stuff from around the world.” PeopleWorldStuffInternetBandAlbumsExcitedGreat ThingsAround The WorldRomania Author:Ed Droste
“Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.” PeopleStillsCoursesFoundEffortRecordsAmountInternet Author:Devendra Banhart
“It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.” PeopleHardChallengesInternetSurpriseVisualsWorldlyShocking Author:Guido Palau
“I think that online harassment has become so ubiquitous on the Internet that a lot of women do feel safer, whatever that means, in spaces where they know like people are not going to bother them in that kind of way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayFeelsKindMeanSpaceInternetBotherOnlineHarassment Author:Jessica Valenti
“The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don't like that in much the same way that if you're walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that's why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindHappensVoiceSpaceStreetsInternetWalkingThings HappenOnlineHesitant Author:Jessica Valenti
“In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet.” PeoplePastUsedStuffInternetLondonParisInstantaneousMilan Author:Paul Weller
“We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.” PeopleTryingWarSeemsStupidTheoryColdInternetAchievementAgendasConspiracyCold WarConspiracy TheoryNot Stupid Author:Bassem Youssef
“I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.” PeopleThinkingImportantSoundInternetCdsMusic LoveVinyl Author:Norah Jones
“What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what I was doing, and we both, we just started to talk. How did I know what Daniel Buren was doing, and to an extent, he knew exactly what I was doing? How did everybody know? It's an interesting thing. I'm still fascinated by it because, why is it now, with the Internet and everything else, you get whole groups of artists who have chosen to be regional? They really are only with the people they went to school with.” PeopleKnowsStillsWholeSchoolArtistInterestingGroupsInternetEuropeChosenFascinatedTraveledInteresting Things Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Everyday though, I'm just looking for like- I always ask people, What are you listening to? What sounds are good to you? Alot of people are in their car, in the club or on the internet looking and I just don't do any of that. Usually if I'm out and about it's because I have something to do, because I'm like a really big home body. If I'm at home, im watching Nickelodeon cartoons so sometimes I'm out of the loop with the cool music, but for sure I'm predicting that J.Cole is going to be good.” PeopleIfsSometimesHomeBodyBigsAsksSoundCarListeningInternetEverydayClubsBe GoodCartoonLoopsPredictingNickelodeonCool Music Author:Jhene Aiko
“We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's going on. But we also need people on the streets pounding the pavement to make a significant and dramatic appearance to suggest that what's going on here is unacceptable.” PeopleKnowsNeedsSocialConsciousnessStreetsMediaSeriousInternetAppearanceSocial MediaSpreadSignificantDramaticPavement Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I am impressed when I go on the internet and see a lot of young people who've been influenced by the books, or I meet someone who tells me how it has changed their life. To me, that is much more real than sales figures.” PeopleBookRealYoungFiguresChangedGoes OnInternetImpressed Author:Robert Greene
“One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever magazine article. That is also the great power of the internet, where people share their opinions without the annoying screen of the media, and so much of the presence of my books has come from the Internet. It's a new era, a new form of war, and I embrace it.” PeopleKindPersonsBookWarHelpingFormOpinionShareMediaInternetEmbraceScreensCleverSuperiorsMagazinesErasArticlesAnnoyingGreat PowerAdvertisementsNew Era Author:Robert Greene
“There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.” PeopleWayKindSpeakCommonBecomingInternetSpeechNegativePatternsMainstreamTrollConnotationInternet Trolls Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Today in America many people are living in a virtual world. They enter it through an internet access device and they navigate freely around it, and those people who learn how to navigate better in that space are finding that they have better access to information about jobs and education and all the good things that our society produces.” PeopleWorldTodayJobsAmericaSpaceInformationProduceInternetFindingsGood ThingsAccessOur SocietyDevicesNavigateAccess To InformationVirtual WorldInternet AccessJobs And Education Author:William E. Kennard
“The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to happen. And I'm just one person. There are millions of people really ready to go. We're just not sure where to go yet.” PeopleTryingPersonsBookHappensMillionsClearReadyInternetLettersResponseNot SureJust One Author:Marianne Williamson
“This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years.” PeopleWorldYearsSocialSpaceSuccessfulChangedInternetQuietCreatingNew WorldFrustratedSocial Network Author:Emmanuel Petit
“I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.” PeopleWantProcessVoiceHeardInternetUniqueAmazonDiplomaticInterconnectedness Author:Matt Bomer
“It's fine for people to say, "If you can't stand the heat and if you can't stand the criticism, then just don't use the Internet"; unfortunately, that is not an option. The Internet is where we make our living and where we make our work, especially if we're independents and we cannot afford to not engage, because that's where our business is driving from. It's just not an option.” PeopleIfsUseFineInternetCriticismDrivingHeat Author:Amanda Palmer
“Even in ancient times, people would unite to a beat. Now we have the internet and events worldwide, our frequency can be shared. Everyone can express themselves to the planet.” PeopleEventsPlanetsInternetBeatsAncientFrequencyAncient Times Author:David Guetta
“I always knew I wanted to make music and share music. I followed my dreams and my passion. Et voila! And now it means not just me, but our community, have a voice. There was no internet, twitter, facebook, or instagram back then; now people with shared passions can unite their voice to share their values and thoughts, be heard, and make a difference. It's amazing - everyone can have a voice - and, as ONE, it can be incredible.” PeopleMeanDreamWantedValuesPassionVoiceCommunityDifferencesHeardShareInternetIncrediblesMaking A DifferenceMy PassionInstagramOur Community Author:David Guetta
“What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now.” PeopleThinkingIdeasAblePastSocialAbilityResultsPowerfulPossibilityInternetRight NowToughToolsSpreadOrganizePowerlessNetworkingUrgencySocial NetworkingSocial NetworkResourcefulBrewingReally Powerful Author:Shepard Fairey
“Probably the majority of those things that people possess may be legal or sourced sustainably, but there are other things that people just don't realize. You have to really watch out for this, particularly when you are traveling or buying things off the internet.” PeopleMayRealizingWatchesInternetMajorityBuyingBuying Things Author:Allen Crawford
“You can feel a little vulnerable when you see people tearing you apart on the internet or saying, "It's the end of music." "This guy is a total hack." I've read it all. But at the same time, even though I feel a little vulnerable with that, I do feel comfortable.” PeopleFeelsLittlesEndsGuyInternetComfortableVulnerableThis GuyHacks Author:Girl Talk
“I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.” PeopleThinkingAbleCommunitySeeingIndustryInternetMajorsToolsLabelsSchemesTypicalPyramidsMusic IndustrySuperstarTop DownPyramid Schemes Author:Amanda Palmer
“I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do these teach-ins on the internet, live and split screen, and have real in-depth debate between people that are on the "other" side of issues - nuclear, gun control, whatever. We could really be having a much more democratically involved and exciting debate with people emailing their questions and having a virtual town meeting.” PeopleWarRealSidesTeachIssuesInternetInvolvedGunExcitingTownsMeetingsDepthScreensNuclearDebateSplitsGun ControlRevival Author:Bonnie Raitt
“As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.” PeopleThinkingGrowsEconomySeeingInternetAccessObsessionOwnershipAntidoteTippingTipping Point Author:Richard Branson
“When dealing with the internet, I knew that people would have their own opinions, and I went into it with that in mind.” PeopleMindOpinionInternet Author:Laura Michelle Kelly
“Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself at Juventus, and even more incredibly found himself in the running to win an internet poll of the great club's greatest ever player. The curse ironically struck O'Brien a second time when he was at one point leading Time magazine's list of the Greatest People Of The 20th Century. The error in the polling was soon rectified and O'Brien, happily, is leading a highly successful career playing pro-football with FC Dallas in the American soccer league.” PeopleRunningYoungFoundWinningCareersCasesSuccessfulPlayerFansCenturyMediaFootballInternetErrorsClubsListsMagazinesSoccerLeagueCurseMeaningless20th CenturyPollsFootballerDallasPro FootballPollingSuccessful CareerTime MagazineJuventus Author:Ian O'Doherty
“My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.” PeopleKnowsHelpingHomeBeliefSocialNumbersCarInternetActivityOfficeFunctionEntertainmentManageDevicesApplicationEquipmentSocial LifeLarge NumbersManageableAppliances Author:Vinton Cerf
“Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.” PeopleKindWholeLostInternetIntellectualToolsEducationalCultGenerator Author:Noam Chomsky