Phones Quotes - Page 24

• Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

  Daniel Goleman

  Smart, Media, Information

  "Focus on How You Connect With Others" by Daniel Goleman, November 12, 2013.

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• Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

  Daniel Goleman

  Morning, Writing, House

  "The Benefits of a Productive Cocoon" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

  Alison Gopnik

  Mail, Phone Calls, Faster

  Alison Gopnik (2016). “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children”, p.229, Macmillan

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• The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

  Bear Grylls

  Religious, Jobs, Children

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• E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

  Tom Hanks

  Mail, Introvert, Get Away

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• My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

  Tom Hanks

  Baby, Kids, Years

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• This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Focus, Groups

  Hansard (parlamentary debates transcript), January 29, 2003.

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• I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Opposites, Office, Tree

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2006.

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• Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home and that's where the problem starts - because they sit on their phones all night, thinking about who's 'liked' a photo of them, who hates them, who loves them. They don't know what's real and what's not, editing their lives constantly to fit other people's views.

  Jessie J

  Children, Hate, Real

  "Jessie J: 'I'm a hard worker. I want to be great at everything I do'". Interview with Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2013.

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• I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.

  Marc Jacobs

  Years, Numbers, Batteries

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• Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

  LeBron James

  Family, Basketball, Mean

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• We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Use, Want

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• What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Use, Want

  "Solve This: What All Tech Giants Rely on for Success Except Apple" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2017.

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• Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

  Jay-Z

  Growing Up, People, Guy

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• My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

  Anna Kendrick

  Understanding, Phone Calls, My Family

  "Toronto Q&A: Anna Kendrick on The Company You Keep, Civic Virtue, Weed, and Hip-Hop". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. September 12, 2012.

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• The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

  Ken Kesey

  Hero, Trouble, Phone Booth

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• Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Children, Novelists

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• A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Goats, Opinion, Fairness

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• Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Party, Book, Home

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• Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Smart, Self, Way

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• I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

  Patti LaBelle

  Book, Home, Land

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• I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fun, Paris, People

  "Karl Lagerfeld’s Glassware for Orrefors". Interview with Dana Thomas, www.architecturaldigest.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Beautiful, People, Use

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• Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Development, Tvs

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• You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

  Jim Lehrer

  Cells, Want, Cell Phone

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