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Quotes About Amplification

And how did they drive people mad? They turned up the volume of the inner monologue, magnified qualities already present to great excess, made people so much themselves that they couldn't stand it.
~ Donna Tartt
They turned up the volume of the inner monologue, magnified qualities already present to great excess, made people so much themselves that they couldn't stand it. "And how can we lose this maddening
~ Donna Tartt
Whatever attitude we bring into a situation will be multiplied.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Adding 'and sh..' to the end of any sentence makes it sound cooler and sh......
~ Unknown
Write like yourself, only more so.
~ Marc Laidlaw
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
More basses, because you are so far away.
~ Eugene Ormandy
The simple mathematical fact working here is that variation is always amplified as it moves down a chain of connected events. A little variation in step one introduces a huge variation five steps later.
~ Unknown
The paradox of public speaking is: you can't just be yourself; you need to amplify yourself.
~ Unknown
A field tends of itself to multiply.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Emergence is when micro-level complex systems that are far from equilibrium (thus allowing for the amplification of random events) self-organize (creative, self-generated, adaptability-seeking behavior) into new structures, with new properties that previously did not exist, to form a new level of organization on the macro level.
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
We sometimes have the impression that the coronavirus is providing people with a megaphone with which to say, more loudly, what they were wanting to say anyway.
~ Unknown
the assumption that a new medium is merely an extension or amplification of an older one; that an automobile, for example, is only a fast horse, or an electric light a powerful candle.
~ Neil Postman
embedded in every tool is an ideological bias, a predisposition to construct the world as one thing rather than another, to value one thing over another, to amplify one sense or skill or attitude more loudly than another.
~ Neil Postman
If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.
~ Niall Ferguson
I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.
~ Pete Hamill