Diffusion Quotes - Page 3

• Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.

  Raymond Chandler

  Eye, Writing, Loss

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

  Lord Hailsham

  Political, Liberty

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• If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

  Lord Hailsham

  Political, Concentration, Dictatorship

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• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

  Daniel Webster

  Mind, Intellectual, Theatre

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.131, Beard Books

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• We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like. Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Negative

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.669, Modern Library

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Thinking, Essence

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between applied research and policy and program development. Recently there has been less interest in these issues and we feel that this interest must be rekindled.

  Ruth Simmons

  Issues, Innovation, Development

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Happiness, Education, Opportunity

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• Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Years, Perfection, Contentment

  "Samuelson's Foundations: The Role of Mathematics in Economics". Journal of Political Economy, Volume 56, June 1948.

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• I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.

  Kalan Sherrard

  New York, Believe, Artist

  "Reading photographs may be like reading language, but only up to a point". Interview with Bucky Miller, believermagblog.wordpress.com. June 6, 2014.

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• The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Abuse, Principles

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• The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.

  Thomas Piketty

  Levels, Wells, Convergence

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.

  James Madison

  Education, Men, Rights

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.

  Carl L. Becker

  Education, Hurt, Government

  Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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• The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

  Beilby Porteus

  Exercise, Blessing, Joy

  Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13

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• The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Reading, Ignorance, Thinking

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

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• I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.

  Simon Sinek

  Law, Innovation, Purpose

  Source: advisor.tv

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