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“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Made Care Evil Alive Media Perception Music Is Interviews Trickery Necessary Evil

Author:Jack White

“Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.”

Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

“Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.”

World Giving Form Learning Media Style Willing Victory Perception Gains Slave Therapy Shopping Giving Back Be A Slave

Author:Thanissaro Bhikkhu

“It's weird to be called a celebrity or talk about it. I don't talk about being a celebrity in my business meetings. I don't talk about it with my friends. It's not a part of my life. It's a media perception of who I am.”

Media Perception My Friends Meetings Who I Am Business Meeting

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.”

Thinking Needs Feels Art Running Grows Water Media Ten Skills Perception Messages Mass Opposites Seconds Hook Make You Think Iconic Mass Media Sensational Vases Doggedness

Author:Robert Hughes

“We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.”

People Thinking Believe Kind Reality Media Politician Perception Don't Believe Saving Cycles Vicious Doom Vicious Cycles Perception Is Reality

Author:Amity Shlaes

“You're living in a matrix that's driven by social media. It's become glorified. You're suppose to be what you portray on social media, thats the perception.”

Social Media Perception Social Media Driven

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“I've also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version of what's happening here?" I start to feel, "How can I use [or "claim"] this?".”

Feels Trying Moments Use Feelings Found Social Media Perception Happenings Claims Social Media Active Versions

Author:George Saunders

“The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.”

People Hands Strong Issues Media Perception Agendas Strong Hands

Author:Rob Lowe

“The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.”

Reality Media Perception Perception Reality

Author:Ray Dalio