Today our attention is less
Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We’re looking at six or seven problems constantly. We’re living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
– Marina Abramovic
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- A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. – David Ogilvy
- Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller
- My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don’t see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis
- Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment. – Susan Wojcicki
- Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment. – Susan Wojcicki
- Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. – J.B. Priestley
- There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. – John Astin