“Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.” EmotionTelevisionPagesReflectionInvitesPrinted Author:Bill Moyers
“TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.” PeopleThinkingHumansUseGuyAnswersTakenConditionsTelevisionReadyTvsReflectionCrucialHuman Condition Author:Alan Arkin
“TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.” ArtCultureLanguageLandTelevisionTvsReflectionStructureAddConsumerismStereotypeDemographics Author:Roseanne Barr
“A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.” FirstsIndividualTelevisionReflectionPhotographIndividualityInterpretationPermitDictatorshipParticipation Author:Oliviero Toscani
“Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.” PeopleKnowsGivingTryingHumansArtDecisionLevelsAwarenessMediaInformationTelevisionHappeningsReflectionEncouragementFascinatedGeneralizationLife Happens Author:Reggie Watts
“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.” PossibilityTelevisionCommunicationSolitudeMassReflectionRadioGenocideMass Communication Author:Eugenio Montale
“Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.” QualityEconomyTelevisionTasteReflectionBritishElitesBritish Television Author:Rupert Murdoch
“What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.” ThinkingWorldWritingLongEndsRunningKidsJobsFallLostChurchWalksHealingWifeCrazyTelevisionLoversOne DayHusbandReflectionDown AndRadioDisappearParksDistractionFalling ApartHusband And WifeLong Walks Author:Maya Angelou