Amplify Quotes

A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

Money is neither good nor bad. It simply amplifies what is in the heart of the one who controls it.

My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the sound. I had a wooden apple box with a Piezo [contact] mic and little objects that I could amplify on the box. I used the bathtub for reverberation.

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.

As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for "material." Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.

I'm a sensitive guy, and I'm already one of my harshest critics, so if other people are hard on me, it just amplifies how hard I already am on myself.

You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.