Quotes About Visibility

It took me an entire lifetime to find out what my generator is. It is: We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. Everything good (aesthetics, ethics) and wrong (Fooled by Randomness) with us seems to flow from it.

Verba volent, words fly. Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times. This is the product of modernism and division of tasks. Recall that I said that America's

In a nutshell, the survivorship bias implies that the highest performing realization will be the most visible. Why? Because the losers do not show up.

The degree of randomness in such an activity and our ability to isolate the contribution of the individual determine the visibility of the skills content.

Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times.

Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times. This is the product of modernism and division of tasks.

The gains from size are visible but the risks are hidden

And the role of such formal knowledge will be overappreciated precisely because it is highly visible.

the benefits are small, and visible—and the costs very large, delayed, and hidden.

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

When we doubt our minds, we tend to discount its products. If we fear intellectual self-assertiveness, perhaps associating it with loss of love, we mute our intelligence. We dread being visible; so we make ourselves invisible, then suffer because no one sees us.

the first law of demonology is that if you can see it, it can see you. But

But knowing or not knowing does not save us from being known

the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10

Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.

We talk sometimes about the impact we hope we're having, that little girls - and boys - at home are watching us on TV. We can be role models.

I didn't grow up with a lot of role models necessarily when I started out - there weren't many people who looked like me on TV. Not in England.

Role models are important and if you see it you can be it.

With MTV2, every fighter is exposed to millions of people, and they won't have to take a monster pay cut to do so.

It's weird... I've been an actor for a long time and you can walk around more or less anonymously.

I think 'Miracle's Boys' made more people aware of my work.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.