Quotes About Spread

Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation to some vaguely specified context. We must now acknowledge, however, that some ideas go viral because of structural features of the network through which they spread. They are least likely to do so in a hierarchical, top-down network, where horizontal peer-to-peer links are prohibited.

rumours can go viral without sophisticated information technology.

we cannot transmit ideas and behaviours much beyond our friends' friends' friends

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

Word of mouth is very powerful.

In order for life to take hold at all on a cooling planet, it had first to occur with fantastic profusion. We have a micro-glimpse of this in our little human lives: men produce infinitely more seminal fluid than is required to build a human family, and are tortured—not completely unpleasantly—by the urgent need to spread it all over the place or otherwise get rid of it.

When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin.

esiste una società segreta con ramificazioni in tutto il mondo, che complotta per diffondere la voce che esiste un complotto universale.

Bu yüzden kötü bir ÅŸeye gülmek, onunla savaÅŸma isteÄŸi duymamak anlam?na gelir; iyi bir ÅŸeye gülmekse, iyiliÄŸin kendiliÄŸinden yay?lmas?n? saÄŸlayan gücü yads?mak demektir.

Tal es la fuerza de la verdad, que, como la bondad, se difunde por sí misma.

He forgot how he himself had been blind, a short time ago—after the fashion of all crusaders since the original ones, who set out to spread the gospel of Brotherhood by force of arms.

Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. "Come and get me.

Not too much call for knowing the American gene spread on the snowball.

Widespread mutilation seems to have originated in Stone Age central Africa and traveled north, down the Nile, into ancient Egypt. It wasn't until Arab-Muslim armies conquered Egypt in the eighth century that the practices spread out of Africa in a systematic way, parallel to the dissemination of Islam, reaching as far as Pakistan and Indonesia. They

Jerry Sternin) scoprì gli esempi positivi e li diffuse in una sorta di contagio benefico. Si concentrò su quello che funzionava per riprodurlo, piuttosto che su quello che non funzionava per cercare, inutilmente, di ripararlo.

there is one situation worse than too much information: not enough of it. When hard news is scarce, rumors arise everywhere. Rumors don't have to be true, they just have to be spread. And these days the Internet is the channel for their communication.

Terror, he realized, was best spread not by the acts of warriors, but by the pens of scribes and scholars.

The Mongols operated a virtual propaganda machine that consistently inflated the number of people killed in battle and spread fear wherever its words carried.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Taking proactive steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus in our communities is essential to protecting not only our families, but the many seniors, immunocompromised individuals, and other people with underlying health conditions who have a serious interest in avoiding exposure to the disease.