Baggini Ted Quotes & Sayings

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'. — Will Self

An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most. — Robin Sharma

I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway. — Liza Minnelli

Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want to take my children back to. It's a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it's one of the most complex places on the planet. — Ryan Phillippe

We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: Telegraphy also made public discourse essentially incoherent. It brought into being a world of broken time and broken attention, to use Lewis Mumford's phrase. The principle strength of the telegraph was its capacity to move information, not collect it, explain it or analyze it. In this respect, telegraphy was the exact opposite of typography. — Neil Postman