E. G. Marshall Quotes

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.

Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.

We need empathy to give empathy.

The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

If people just asked: "Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs?" the conflict would be easy to resolve.

Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.

I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from.

Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it.

Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

Electronic man has no physical body.

Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

The real news is bad news.

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.

Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

Ask 'What' and 'When.' The 'How' will naturally be revealed.

To find what we aren't able to find, we must look in a place we haven't looked.

Either you will do now what it takes or ten years from now you wish that you had.

Everything you want and you don't have, you get from other people.

Let your yes be yes and your no be no--you can always change your mind.

Those that are afraid to buy are always afraid to sell.

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

Not believing in something doesn't make it not exist.

Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

At the vital point of truth, we all become a conscientious objector.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.