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Quotes About Amplification

A whisper can become a roar
~ Gena Showalter
our safest bet is that the era of high-technology communication, in the beginning of which we are now immersed, will continue to develop and amplify. We may look forward to more numerous and more versatile communications satellites, laser beams replacing microwaves in space and providing millions of times as many audio and video channels, optical fibers carrying light replacing copper wires carrying electricity, and elaborate computerization making the world more responsive to our needs.
~ Isaac Asimov
One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
~ M. J. Rose
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
~ Will Rogers
The effect of the leverage is that a small loss would be compounded and would wipe him out.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Widespread intelligence amplification doesn't lead to widespread rational behavior. New religions and mystery cults explode across the planet; much of the Net is unusable, flattened by successive semiotic jihads.
~ Charles Stross
I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.
~ Chelsea Handler
Journalism is about giving a voice to those who without us won't have a voice
~ Chris Hedges
The brain has a way of confirming its own hypotheses. It's how we function in our world. That which fits within our definition and perspective of our existence is retained, if not amplified. That which does not is either rationalized or cast aside until an event so great or profound occurs that we must rethink everything.
~ J.R. Ward
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
~ Stephen Covey
My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It's very loud. It's the type of guitar that Son House and Robert Johnson played.
~ Johnny Flynn
Money will only make you more of what you already are.
~ T. Harv Eker
I don't like to bad-mouth other shows, but I was very disturbed after seeing 'Starlight Express.' It had very little to do with musical comedy as I know it. It had to do with sound and spectacle and records and technology and amplification.
~ Joel Grey
It seems to me, personally, that the things that are great during Christmastime are magnified. Like everything is that much better. Everything is magical and spectacular. The things that are wrong or sad are just so much more wrong or sad.
~ Alison Sudol
You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.
~ Richard Bonynge
It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Dinâmica dos excessos e amplificações, redobramento dos artifícios, preciosidade ostentatória, o vestuário de moda da testemunho de que já se está na era moderna da sedução, da estética da personalidade e da sensualidade.
~ Gilles Lipovetsky
MONEY is neither positive nor negative. It only AMPLIFIES what YOU already are. Be kind. Be loving. Be generous.
~ Gordana Biernat
She was trying to whisper, but she might as well have yelled under an echoing bridge.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Light makes light even brighter, but does not cancel it.
~ Steven Chopade
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
~ Ethan Zuckerman
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.
~ Edwin Morgan
Memory is the past with volume control.
~ Colson Whitehead