Amplify Quotes

• Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

  Simon Sinek

  Motivational, Leadership, Work

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2012

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• Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Special, Genes

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.407, Penguin

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• Crystals amplify the consciousness.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Crystals, Consciousness

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• True love should be transformative; a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Only to the extent that we polish ourselves now can we hope to develop wonderful bonds of the heart in the future.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, People, Stronger

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• Social media is the greatest leadership tool ever invented. It gives you the opportunity to amplify your voice, extend your influence, and create a tribe of passionate followers who want to hear from you.

  Michael Hyatt

  Opportunity, Media, Voice

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• New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.

  Mark Batterson

  Media, People, Ability

  "Megachurch Pastor: Prayer Is My Wi-Fi". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

  James C. Collins

  Creativity, Discipline, Should

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• Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

  Andre Gide

  Argument, Quarrels, Dialogue

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• Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Children, Crazy, Lying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Needs, Attention

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

  Ken Burns

  Film Music, Want, Emotion

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• Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Energy, Genius

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.169

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• Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

  Bruce Mau

  Unique, Simple, Yield

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• Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

  David Levithan

  Distance, Magic, Proximity

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.29, Egmont UK

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• My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

  Rian Johnson

  Emotional, Ideas, Hook

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• It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.

  James P. Hogan

  Thinking, Mystical Experiences, Age

  James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books

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• In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

  David Lynch

  Struggle, Life And Death, Littles

  "Lost Highway". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, March 6, 1997.

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• Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

  Steve Sabol

  Movie, Football, Games

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

  Rick Perlstein

  Powerful, Lying, Two

  "Inside the GOP’s Fact-Free Nation" by Rick Perlstein, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

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• Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

  David Myers

  People, Groups, Interaction

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• You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of other things are happening that can pull focus or energy. You're always thinking the same way, but you have to amplify your thoughts with the volume of your speech and the ways you use your whole body to communicate what you're feeling. It's a little bit different from film.

  Jeremy Irons

  Eye, Thinking, Focus

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• …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?

  John Updike

  Coffee, Eye, Men

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• The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Body

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each other in your context, not how they relate to something out there-how they were relevant on the North American prairies or in the Asian jungles hundreds of years agon, but how they are relevant now-unless by contemplating their former meaning you can begin to amplify your own understanding of the role they play in your life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Years, Play, Understanding

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