“The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.” ShouldUsedNumbersInfluenceKeysMessagesEvidenceIncreaseCommunicateDramaticVotersTelephonesEmailCollectingBlogging Author:Adam Rickitt
“So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" - and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.” StatesNumbersLeaderGroupsMembersMessagesBoxesUnhappyVarietyShoutingBallotsCartoonist Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.” IfsKindGivenLevelsNumbersApproachMessagesHungerConsumersThresholdNew Approach Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or repel each other but included each other, and went together in friendship; that it was approached in different ways and through many symbols; that it resided in the hearts of its devotees. Here there were no chosen people, no exclusive prophethoods, no privileged churches and fraternities and ummas. The message was subversive of all religions based on exclusive claims.” PeopleWayHeartDifferentTogetherSpiritualityChurchNumbersMessagesClaimsChosenSymbolsIndianManifestationDifferent WaysPrivilegedExclusiveSubversiveFraternityDevotee Book:Hindu View of Christianity and Islam Source: Hindu View of Christianity and Islam
“I did something rather innovative that my competitors didn't like: I took out a full-page advertisement in the Yellow Pages that listed an office on the east side of Cincinnati, and another office on the west side, while every other heating/air-conditioning company had only one location and one phone number. I was the citywide company. In fact, our 'westside office' was just an answering service taking telephone message. From the start we appeared to be a big company.” FactsBigsSidesNumbersCompanyAirOfficeMessagesPagesWestPhonesEastYellowLocationTelephonesCompetitorsInnovativeConditioningAdvertisementsHeatingBig CompaniesPhone NumbersAir ConditioningEast SideWest SideWestside Author:Kevin Harrington
“It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.” PeopleIfsMenWayChildrenHas BeensMadeDifferentFoundJesusUnderstandingBornNumbersMillionsImpossibleHappenedCenturyChangedTaughtBirthMessagesMen And WomenTwentiesCaughtDifferent ThingsNew WaysCaught UpUnderstanding LifeJesus Birth Author:Frederick Buechner
“I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.” GivingTryingI CanUseOrderNumbersMessagesPicksConsciousMathematicsMathematicalSymbolism Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.” PeopleNeedsFeelingsNumbersCareersPathSuccessfulTypeMessagesOrganizationIncreaseManagementMajorityEsteemWinnerCategoriesClimbingFewerLaddersContributingCareer PathClimbing Up Author:Judith M Bardwick
“Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.” ShouldNumbersProductsMonthsMessagesShould HaveCrashTestingIdiosyncrasiesAbbreviations Book:The Macintosh Way Source: The Macintosh Way
“A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesMovingUniverseNumbersStreetsPolicyDesignWallIndustryOughtMessagesRelationTiesDepartmentCommentAcademicEconomistSkepticalTanksThumbsCaptivesPublic RelationsPublic PolicyAnalystsMerchandise Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“... many Hindus are willing to consider Jesus as a legitimate manifestation of the divine... many Buddhists see Jesus as one of humanity's most enlightened people.... A shared reappraisal of Jesus' message could provide a unique space or common ground for urgently needed religious dialogue - and it doesn't seem an exaggeration to say that the future of our planet may depend on such dialogue. This reappraisal of Jesus' message may be the only project capable of saving a number of religions.” PeopleMaySeemsHumanityJesusReligiousSpaceCommonNumbersDivineWillingPlanetsDependsNeededProjectsMessagesCapableUniqueDialogueSavingBuddhistManifestationEnlightenedOur PlanetExaggerationCommon Ground Author:Brian D. McLaren
“In most cases, if you've gotten to this point, you've already received a letter or phone message from your creditor with the name and extension of a representative. If you haven't, you can call the toll-free number on your bill, but keep in mind that the person who answers may not have the power to negotiate a settlement. Ask to speak to someone who is either a supervisor or in the settlement department, if the creditor has one (as many do).” IfsMindMayPersonsAsksNamesSpeakAnswersNumbersCasesHavensMessagesLettersBillsPhonesDepartmentRepresentativesExtensionsSettlementTollsCreditorsSupervisors Author:Jean Chatzky
“I love people thinking about apologetics. I just think that we have to be careful. We need to realize that we can argue about evolution or the existence of God or any number of things, but until we tell people the message of the cross, we have not evangelized them.” PeopleThinkingNeedsRealizingNumbersExistenceEvolutionMessagesCrossesCarefulArguingBe CarefulExistence Of GodApologetic Author:Mark Dever
“The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?” IfsShouldLife IsPresidentNumbersMoralPositionMoralitySpeechMessagesCompromiseAbortionLife And DeathPresident ObamaImmoralExtremistPro LifeDamesNotre DameBetween Life And Death Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.” PeopleValuesGivenNumbersRolesPeriodsLimitsBenefitsMessagesLegacyProphetMuhammadSealsProphet Muhammad Author:Cat Stevens
“A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.” PeopleWorldTwoNumbersProductsCostMessagesLowsStrategyProducersAround The WorldGlobalizationInnovativeNew Products Author:Jack Welch
“Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.” IfsThinkingWayKindAnswersNumbersMessagesAskingPhonesEngagedSignalsTelephonesPointless Author:Nick Hornby
“It's funny how certain objects convey a message - my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them they remind me that I'm doing fairly well. "No more laundromat for you," they hum. My stove, a downer, tells me every day that I can't cook, and before I can defend myself my scale jumps in, shouting from the bathroom, "Well, he must be doing _something - _my numbers is off the charts." The skeleton has a much more limited vocabulary, and says only one thing: "You are going to die."” WellsI CanCertainDiesCoursesSpeakNumbersOne ThingExampleObjectsMessagesScalesCooksVocabularyBathroomShoutingSkeletonsStovesDryersDownersLaundromats Author:David Sedaris