Transmission Quotes

• The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

  George MacDonald

  Kindness, Acceptance, Firsts

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• Education is the transmission of civilization.

  Will Durant

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

  Steve Jobs

  Law, People, Car

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Intelligence, Use

  The Absorbent Mind ch. 1 (1949)

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• In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

  Gregory Bateson

  Skills, People, Parent

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

  Jerome Bruner

  Views, Alternatives, World

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• The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Art, Design

  'What is Art?' (1898) ch. 19 (translated by Maude)

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• The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Voice, Tuning, Radio

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

  Maria Montessori

  Use, Lag, Development

  The Absorbent Mind ch. 1 (1949)

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• Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Important, Information, Structure

  Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.109, Da Capo Press

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• Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

  Serge Lang

  Viruses, Hiv, Screening

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media

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• There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Car, Kind, Debate

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• Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate them into the European system. What does it mean for us in practice? In practice, it means that a number of zones will emerge between several regions of the Russian Federation, where we will have no power transmission lines, since previously we used to have a loop transition through the Baltic countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Mean, Practice

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.

  Eugene Green

  Past, Civilization, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Often it takes more time to explain a task than to do it yourself, and when you do it yourself there is no data lost in transmission. We have something to learn about how communication works in these settings. Sometimes it takes a really long time to communicate the full meaning of what we want to say.

  Grant David McCracken

  Communication, Long, Sometimes

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.

  Paul Cellucci

  America, Energy, Mexico

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• We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

  Richard Burr

  Reality, Light, Reliability

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• The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.

  Roman Vishniac

  Photography, Thinking, Mind

  "Nature as it is" by Jacob Deschin, New York Times, February 3, 1952.

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• When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

  Andy Warhol

  Running, Long, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Block, Reality, Tunnels

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• No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.

  Atul Gawande

  Country, Numbers, Ebola

  "The Ebola Epidemic Is Stoppable" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Humanity, Tribes, Culture

  Edward Burnett Tylor (2016). “Primitive Culture”, p.426, Courier Dover Publications

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• Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Vibrations

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• Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.

  Jo Baer

  Real, Reflection, Light

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