Quotes About Gatekeepers

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

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.

most cold calls didn't get to the intended person for one reason: gatekeepers. If I simply made all my calls from 8:00–8:30 A.M. and 6:00–6:30 P.M., for a total of one hour, I was able to avoid secretaries and book more than twice as many meetings

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.

With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.

Comedy is great in that it's accessible to someone like me, from a low socioeconomic background, struggling in life. The gatekeepers are a lot stronger in other art forms.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

As communications channels explode, citizen journalism becomes common, and opinions can be shared with millions, yesteryear's gatekeepers of polite opinion no longer have the power to keep authoritarian views out of circulation. In this brave new world, authoritarian messages have little trouble finding their way to ears primed to accept them.

The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported to the kingís household.

These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was their chief;

he was previously stationed at the Kingís Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.

The number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their positions of trust.

The gatekeepers were stationed on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.

But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God.

along with Obed-edom and his sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun, and also Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.

These were the divisions of the gatekeepers: From the Korahites: Meshelemiah son of Kore, one of the sons of Asaph.

These divisions of the gatekeepers, through their chief men, had duties for ministering in the house of the LORD, just as their brothers did.

These were the divisions of the gatekeepers who were descendants of Korah and Merari.

In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests according to the daily requirement. He also appointed gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God.

He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that nothing unclean could enter for any reason.

The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the kingís seer. And the gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their position, because their fellow Levites made preparations for them.