Hermida Quotes & Sayings

It is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them. — Max Hastings

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level. — Vicente Fox

Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first to feel that everything is changing too quickly around us, and we won't be the last. Throughout history, communication technologies have been catalysts of societal and cultural change that upset the status quo. — Alfred Hermida

In less than a decade, social media is one of those things that has become part of the fabric of society. It is also something about which everyone has an opinion. At some point in a dinner party, someone tends to malign social media for being full of updates about lunch or photos of pets. Life is full of froth. It is the mundane that makes us human. The seemingly inconsequential tidbits we share help us forge social bonds and bring us closer together. — Alfred Hermida

People are not hooked on YouTube, Twitter or Facebook but on each other. Tools and services come and go; what is constant is our human urge to share. — Alfred Hermida

I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards. — Harry Lennix

The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved. — Mads Mikkelsen

Taken together, the rhythms of real time show how Twitter becomes a place to come together when everyday social bonds are strained. It serves as a fleeting town square for people to share their sorrow, fear and hopes. — Alfred Hermida

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the myriad of other services resonate with the basic human urge to be social. The tools have changed, but human behaviour remains consistent. — Alfred Hermida

Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom. — Louis Hoffman

I walk alone it doesn'nt mean i m sad,it mean that you afraid to be and i m comfortable. — Dave

Emotions play a vital part in the social transmission of news and information. Interest, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and contempt affect how some stories catch on and travel far wider than others. — Alfred Hermida

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. — An Wang

Everytime I go into the studio, before going into the studio, I say a prayer and I really ask God to give me inspiration. I ask Him to help me and be able to help the producer I am working with. — Lindsey Stirling

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. — Nancy Pearl

It is a nightmare scenario for any executive who works in an industry that relies on asymmetries in information between the producer and the consumer. — Alfred Hermida

Fairly or not, Western consumers associate Chinese products primarily with 'low price.' — Nirmalya Kumar

Sharing our ideas with others is a way of showing what is important to us. We are sending out signals about ourselves as we highlight what we value and care about. — Alfred Hermida

Big business has no party and never shall have. — Haley Barbour

When I thought of how I'd been living, how I'd been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative middle-class rubbish, and I wanted to gather it all up and stuff it away in some drawer. Or else light it on fire and watch it go up in smoke (though what kind of smoke it would emit I had no idea). — Haruki Murakami

Presumption is a leading cause of death. — Laird Barron