Buttons Quotes - Page 23

• What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

  Lewis Mumford

  Waking Life, Tasks, Belittle

  Lewis Mumford (1970). “The myth of the machine”

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• We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude" protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Attitude, Reading, Heart

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Zippers, Details, Needs

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

  Stephen King

  Tombstone, Years, Space

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check.

  Bill Watterson

  Funny, Light, Littles

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• An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works.

  Marilu Henner

  Tape, Plums, Littles

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• Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.

  David Lynch

  Black And White, Light, Color

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide several versions of their book, ranging from the Easy to the Complex, and buyers will choose what they're in the mood for with the click of a button! I do hope not.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, May, Becoming

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want to send snapshots of my dog and cute pictures of my family life to my friends and family. I don't want to be liked, by pushing a button. I use all of this technology to basically replace devices that I had in the past which worked just fine.

  Harrison Ford

  Cute, Dog, Past

  "Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard, Lucas Till, and Director Robert Luketic Talk PARANOIA, Real-Life Parallels, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2013.

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• There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Betrayal, Philosophy, War

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• But “no” is the button that keeps us on.

  Kevin Ashton

  Kevin Ashton (2015). “How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery”, p.68, Random House

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• One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.

  William H. Gass

  Simple, Water, Eruption

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• The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly from one to another, often to unrelated thoughts, without you controlling where they go. This brain state acts as a neural reset button, allowing us to come back to our work with a refreshed perspective. Different people find they enter this mode in different ways: reading, a walk in nature, looking at art, meditating, and napping. A 15-minute nap can produce the equivalent of a 10-point boost in IQ.

  Daniel Levitin

  Art, Moving, Reading

  "Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

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• We need to push the reset button on climate change.

  Judith Curry

  Change, Reset Button, Climate

  "Does Obama’s UN carbon pledge threaten much more US economic pain?" by George Russell, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2015.

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• The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Strong, Powerful, War

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• I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize and cause trouble. I think it's the kid-like spirit that kids respond to.

  Jason Lee

  Kids, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five
  thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from
  anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I
  could completely imagine his suffering and I replied
  that five thousand Chinamen was something I could not
  imagine and so it was not interesting. One has to
  remember that about imagination, that is when the
  world gets dull when everybody does not know what
  they can or what they cannot really imagine.

  Gertrude Stein

  Brother, Imagination, Interesting

  "Everybody's Autobiography". Book by Gertrude Stein, Chapter 3, 1937.

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• Pick something you are interested in, and keep applying a business model that includes Internet Marketing to make it global, get thousands of leads and clients for free and make more sales. Remember you are building a business, as people make the internet appear to be push-button money, when in fact it is a medium to market your message!

  Tracy Repchuk

  Remember You, Remembers You, People

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• I guess the one thing that people don't know about me is, I had my belly button pierced but not anymore.

  Joanne Froggatt

  People, Belly, Knows

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• You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life

  Emma Roberts

  Cells, Phones, Survival

  Source: collider.com

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• I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
  rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
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  I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
  a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
  People want to push the buttons and see me glow.

  Marge Piercy

  Travel, Real, War

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• It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Reset Button, Shame, Humans

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Thinking, Yesterday, Benjamin Button

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• Do you know how much power I have over you? Yes, you, the one just sitting there hitting the f5 button day in and day out!

  Andrew Hussie

  Over You, Sitting, Hitting

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• There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. Every day we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that’s made all the difference. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

  Drew Houston

  Adventure, Writing, Practice

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