Informing Quotes

• A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

  Wilson Mizner

  Drama, Criticism, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

  William Friedkin

  School, Ideas, Want

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• Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

  Dora Russell

  Birth Control, Firsts, Poor

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• I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

  Joanna Southcott

  Night, Earth, Former

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Real, Science, Technology

  1967 The New Industrial State.

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• The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

  Dave Barry

  Trying, Pieces, Messages

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• A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

  John Keats

  Poetry, Identity, Literature

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

  Sam Walton

  Information Is Power, Empowering, Risk

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

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• Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

  Jim Rohn

  Thinking, Views, Decision

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 09, 2013

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• The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Democracy, Way, Function

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• I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are...
  because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a
  public.

  Chelsea Manning

  Truth, People, Decision

  "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.

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• What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

  Rob Bell

  Believe, Future, Shapes

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2012

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• Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

  Athol Fugard

  Love, Anger, Inspiration

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• A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

  Edmund Burke

  May, Definitions, Littles

  Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.58

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• Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Looks, Body

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Jobs, Book

  Interview with Lee Carter, www.hintmag.com.

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• Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

  Timothy Leary

  Religious, Confused, Educational

  "How to Operate Your Brain". Documentary, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music, 1994.

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• A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Dark, Keys, Light

  "Edward Snowden's worst fear has not been realised - thankfully" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2013.

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• Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

  Allan Bloom

  Education, Art, Passion

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.

  Reza Aslan

  Islamic, Reality, Media

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

  Charles Gwathmey

  Fashion, Color, Discipline

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• There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

  Sylvia Earle

  Numbers, What Matters, Missing

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• It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Memories, Block

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• [D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.

  John Leo

  War, Fighting, Japan

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• I was the first to tell people, my success doesn't depend on who wins elections, 'cause I can't control that. But I do have an agenda deconstructing the left, informing people what liberalism is, how to spot it, who liberals are, and all that, but still within the confines of the business that I'm in, in broadcasting.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, People, Agendas

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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