E. G. Marshall Quotes
In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.
Once it's in you to being a starter, you always want to be that. But you understand the circumstances and you understand what you can and can't do. And that's the reality of it.
As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.
The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.
The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Either you don't know how to do something or you choose not to do something. There is no CANT!
