Top 45 Quotes About Gatekeepers
#1. Librarians, too, are gatekeepers
not of actual experience, of course, but of its written accounts. My job is to safeguard those accounts. Not to judge them; simply to see to their proper dissemination.
Martha Cooley
#2. The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
Adam Mansbach
#3. The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.
Michael A. Stackpole
#4. The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of.
Justin Halpern
#5. I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
Beeban Kidron
#6. If Amazon's dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.
Evgeny Morozov
#7. What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
Kate Thompson
#8. Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's anchor. We are the compass for humanity's conscience.
Harry Belafonte
#9. To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.
Arundhati Roy
#10. Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.
Andrew Nikiforuk
#11. But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.
Eric Alterman
#12. The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you're good enough. It's just your audience.
Lindsey Stirling
#13. The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
Tom Hooper
#14. In all sorts of markets - music, film, art, and politics - the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow.... The gatekeepers had their day. Now there are simply too many gates to keep.
Derek Thompson
#15. There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.
Bill Watterson
#16. I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter.
Rob Lowe
#17. The gatekeepers must change.
Prince
#18. Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.
James H. Billington
#19. The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.
Tony Danza
#20. Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations; they are gatekeepers.
Bryant McGill
#21. I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.
Grace Helbig
#22. There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation.
Rick Perlstein
#23. We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content,
Patrick Collison
#24. In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.
Eli Pariser
#25. Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
#26. Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want to come see them.
Paul Provenza
#27. It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.
John Lurie
#28. The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
David Byrne
#29. Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the gatekeepers of the future. The world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren will depend upon our success in building a more peaceful and decent world.
David Krieger
#30. Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.
Will.i.am
#31. We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie theater. It's a trusting relationship.
David A.R. White
#32. The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.
Vinton Cerf
#33. Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.
Marvin Ammori
#34. We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.
Edward James Olmos
#35. Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#36. One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.
Ray William Johnson
#37. I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
Jim Lehrer
#38. When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
Maelle Gavet
#39. Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.
Jessica Valenti
#40. Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
Jonathan Zittrain
#41. Gatekeepers and people that work in marketing are suckling pigs at the helm of Satan's phallus. They are the death of art, and ultimately the death of the human spirit.
Cockballs
#42. It's plain and simple. You're one person in a sea of individuals hoping to make their mark on the gatekeepers of the business. However, only those who dare, risk and accomplish uncommon things will stand out from the crowd and make noise.
The Ibanker
#43. A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself.
Robert Mankoff
#45. Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.
Eric Ludy
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