Amplifying Quotes

#1. Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

Seth Godin

#2. That's why i started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.

Brian Chippendale

#3. The sound coming out of me is nothing like a cough, nothing even in the same category of a song, but some kind of bird of prey roar, shredding my throat, pulsating my fingers, and Milekt beneath it, singing inside my voice, amplifying me, and making me stronger.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#4. [R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#5. When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity.

Bryant McGill

#6. Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change.

Vir Das

#7. Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of the unknown.

Eli Pariser

#8. Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

Shirley Maclaine

#9. Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change their quantum state and cannot be created. Therefore, even if one could amplify gold atoms, one would not realize the dreams of medieval alchemy.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#10. The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies ... Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

George Eliot

#11. A city is a kind of pattern-amplifying machine: its neighborhoods are a way of measuring and expressing the repeated behavior of larger collectivities - capturing information about group behavior, and sharing that information with the group.

Steven Johnson

#12. The false alarm was the result of the explosive amplifying effects of a hyper-information society when fed sensitive news.

Liu Cixin

#13. Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

Miguel De Unamuno

#14. Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#15. Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted to give us just what we wanted.

Katie Alender

#16. Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

Terence McKenna

#17. We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

Natalie Goldberg

#18. A child in the position of confirming a negative stereotype may respond with especially intense anxiety and reduced motivation, amplifying a negative self-fulfilling prophecy.

Laura Beck

#19. By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.

Jason Silva

#20. Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the grounds of our personal lot.62

Steven Pinker

#21. Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Richard Thompson

#22. Pleasure built upon pleasure, the certainty of my ability amplifying with each new trial.

Amy Cuddy

#23. Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing

Shane Claiborne

#24. Giving and helping from the heart becomes like a magnet, amplifying the energy to all those involved in the exchange.

Heidi DuPree

#25. What we are doing is taking an occult energy; it's amplifying in the chakras and the hands. Then we are neutralizing it and spreading it through the being.

Frederick Lenz

#26. I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

Steven Soderbergh

#27. At the heart of it all, Passion exists to see a generation stake their lives on what matters most. For us, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to fully leverage our lives by amplifying His name in everything we do.

Louie Giglio

#28. Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Rick Moody

#29. The energy form that lies behind hostility and attack finds the presence of love absolutely intolerable. If

Eckhart Tolle

#30. Tell me, in a world where wealth is power, and power is the only freedom, what would desperate men not do to be heard?" "Civil

Claire North

#31. Pets hardly exist in North Korea because most have been eaten.

Mike Kim

#32. The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians

Bernard Membe

#33. Basically I'm pretty sure my mom thinks a well-thought-out list has the power to make time her personal bitch.

Susan Ranelle Amari

#34. Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Michael Lewis

#35. But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

Jack Vance

#36. Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#37. It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

Mark Rothko

#38. Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#39. Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

Meghan Trainor

#40. The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.

Wallace D. Wattles

#41. Play with no fear of failure.

Max Seibald

#42. Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

Roddy Woomble