140 Character Quotes

• Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

  David Tang

  Character, Emperor, Impulsive

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• The challenge CEOs will face three to five years from now is the same one that they face today. That is engagement. It's hard to keep people engaged in what they are doing. As this generation grows up around social media like Twitter where things are 140 characters, how do you keep them engaged all hours every day at work? How do you keep them focused on the big goals you have?

  Don Yaeger

  Growing Up, Character, People

  "Don Yaeger on “Great Teams”: Part 1". Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. September 28, 2016.

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• There's no reason to tweet when you are in the midst of a great moment; they are few and far between. So pay attention to it, as you probably won't see it again. You can always tweet later, if you're lucky enough to be part of history and you think 140 characters can do credit to someone like Martin Luther King or to the speech he made that day.

  Lewis Black

  Character, Thinking, Lucky

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Character, Artist, Space

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• The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

  Seth Godin

  Character, Squares, Mind

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• It was clear to me that the White House's solemn atmosphere would not civilize Trump. But the merciless nepotism with which he conducts politics, in which he places himself and his family above the law, I wouldn't have considered that possible. And on top of that there is this reduction of complex political decisions to 140 characters. When it comes to a U.S. president, I consider the reduction of politics to a tweet to be truly dangerous. Trump is a risk to his country and the entire world.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Character, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.

  Rashida Jones

  Character, People, Stories

  "Rashida Jones #PutaBibOnIt at Dannijo's Fall 2013 Presentation". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. February 8, 2013.

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• I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Events, Tweet

  Neil Gaiman‏ @neilhimself, twitter.com. February 4, 2009.

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• It only takes 140 characters to toss ones character out the window.

  LZ Granderson

  Character, Toss, Window

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• Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful about my books, often in 140 characters or less! It's a very casual, low-stakes, non-burdensome way of connecting that I think is fun for both the writer and the reader. And there are a lot of clever people out there who have no connection to publishing.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Clever, Fun, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Language is always evolving.
  It's difficult to read Shakespeare now
  because language has shifted. Similarly,
  kids these days can get to the point
  really quick in about 140 characters
  or less because of these new tools.

  Erik Qualman

  Character, Kids, Tools

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• Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Character, Phones, People

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• Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

  Stephen Colbert

  Communication, Character, Mean

  "Stephen Colbert Fires Back at Racial Tweet Outcry With 'Colbert Report' Segment" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

  Diablo Cody

  Cute, Character, Worry

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• The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

  Kurt Sutter

  Country, Character, Desire

  "R.I.P. Krazy Kurt Sutter's Twitter Feed" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. August 15, 2011.

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• Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

  Ai Weiwei

  Character, Chinese, Language

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• Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Character, Technology

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• Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.

  Julie James

  Heart, Character, Skills

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.39, Penguin

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• Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Character, Fortune Cookie, Limits

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• Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.

  Sherman Alexie

  Fun, Character, Mean

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat; give him a leaf and he will curve it into a cup and drink water from it; give him a rock and he will make a weapon to protect himself and his family. Give a man a small box and a limit of 140 characters to type into it, and he will adapt it to fight an oppressive dictatorship in the Middle East.

  Nick Bilton

  Character, Fighting, Men

  Nick Bilton (2013). “Hatching Twitter”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• I like trying jokes and seeing the response, and if I end up doing it in my act, it won't be 140 characters. Twitter is helpful that way to me. It's like a message in a bottle. But a lot of times I think I tweet the stuff I would like to say to teenage me.

  Sarah Silverman

  Teenage, Character, Thinking

  "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

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• I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

  Natalie Dormer

  Character, Cutting, Age

  Source: www.elle.com

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• History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Real, Team, Character

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .

  Mark Ravenhill

  Book, Character, Eight

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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