“Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.” ThinkingMindPersonsHas BeensImportantIdeasWholeSilenceOpinionGoneEmpathyMachinesDestroyedGiantsDevicesOur ThoughtsEvery Second Author:Gary Shteyngart
“What we have done over the last 40 or 50 years is systematically attacked and weakened the parties, the political machines, the professionals, and insiders, and hacks, and all the tools that they use to get politicians to play well together. And with those gone, you get chaos.” YearsWellsDonePlayUseTogetherLastsPoliticalPartyGonePoliticianToolsMachinesChaosHacksInsiders Author:Jonathan Rauch
“I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.” WayFeelsPersonsStillsLosesGoneGreaterMagicMachinesMissionsApplesFeel BetterLinkedAurasMystiqueSad Things Author:Alex Gibney
“Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.” HumansMayMeanHumanityViewsGoneStudyProgressModernHuman NatureAspectMachinesGreedTake TimeEvident Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.” WritingMayRealSoundVoiceGoneClearMachinesTheaterSpeedWitCuresDawnShowersDelayHasteMphSinuses Author:Ray Bradbury
“The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.” FeelsPastLife IsGoneMachinesRemainsBullsGlueTime Machine Author:Douglas Coupland
“Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth” WarEarthOrderPresidentGoneMachinesCongressJustifyDecemberDecember 7December 7 1941 Author:Gore Vidal
“It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now.” IfsWorldHeartArtIdeasSpiritualJoyGoneHabitMachinesEverydayCaughtSeekingBonesBrilliantGladPassingPassingsResolveNervesBrilliant IdeasSpiritual PowerLive SimplyAutobiography Of A YogiHappiness Now Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.” MayLittlesSinGoneVirtueProgressEvolutionCivilizationElementsMachinesLittle ThingsMarvelousWorthlessSplendidGrindPowder Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.” DoneSpiritGoneAdventureMachinesBoringLovelyFlyingFlightLiftsAviationEnginesNew AdventureTakeoff Book:Hypnotizing Maria Source: Hypnotizing Maria
“How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam engine into a better, more efficient machine. I'd say that is what Don did for family therapy, he established the discipline. Others have gone on to refine it.” MadeGoneInfluenceFieldsDisciplineMachinesMade ItTherapyEnginesEfficientSteamRefinedSteam Engines Author:Richard Fisch