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Quotes About Amplifying

The enclosed space trapped her anxiety, amplifying her fear.
~ James Rollins
The passing on of Tradition includes, therefore, the passing on of fitting language about its content, and it is this language -- not Tradition itself -- which "develops," in so doing not changing apostolic truth as consciously entertained by the mind of the Church but amplifying its expression.
~ Aidan Nichols
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
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
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.
~ James Hansen
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
~ Steven Soderbergh
testosterone's actions are contingent and amplifying, exacerbating preexisting tendencies toward aggression rather than creating aggression out of thin air.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.
~ Natalie Goldberg
The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.
~ Ory Okolloh
Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing
~ Shane Claiborne
governance couldn't be so antiseptic that it set aside the basic stuff of politics: You had to sell your program, reward supporters, punch back against opponents, and amplify the facts that helped your cause while fudging the details that didn't.
~ Barack Obama
The power of words is awful, Frida. Sometimes I want to bury my typewriter in a box of quilts. The radio makes everything worse, because of the knack for amplifying dull sounds. Any two words spoken in haste might become law of the land. But you never know which two. You see why I won't talk to newsmen.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Identify the lookie-loos and the mistakes and remove them from your sales funnel as quickly as possible. Gather the necessary intelligence from the buyers in heat and the buyers in power, and then continue moving them down the Straight Line towards the close. Begin the process of turning the buyers in power into buyers in heat by amplifying their pain.
~ Jordan Belfort
A leader who cobbles together his self-esteem by attempting to silence or libel his critics and by amplifying his echo chamber is a dangerous one indeed.
~ Faith Salie
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
I have no use for it. My will needs no amplifying. My will shapes worlds. The amulet was fashioned for one like you with no will of which to speak." "Just because we can't manipulate reality with our thoughts doesn't mean we don't have will. Maybe we do shape reality, just on a different scale, and you don't see it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
feedback from right-to-left at all stages of the value stream, amplifying it to ensure that we can prevent problems from happening again or enable faster detection and recovery.
~ Gene Kim
The next time you find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria with sensible people losing their heads, with legislatures in panic and with the media buying it all and amplifying it with a kind of megaphone effect, remember this: Remember that a people—even the most sensible people—can all lose their heads at once.
~ Charles Krauthammer
We will not admit it in the course of our Emmy acceptance speeches, but we reporters know that our work has a corrosive effect, amplifying anxiety in the suburban kitchen. It reinforces stereotypes of a violent black city, which may have its truths, but the extent of the violence is blown wildly out of proportion.
~ Charlie LeDuff