#printing

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#community #competition #giftedness #modern #printing-press

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#circuit #drills #everything #football #gym

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing. ↗

— Obie Trice

#ago #back #brought #doing #going

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#books #comic #comic books #directed #great

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#amendment #anti-american #articles #comfortable #debate

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#debt #doubling #get #growing #money

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#done #gunpowder #mind #press #printing

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#computer screen #direct #hands-on #printing #screen

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#curse #either #forgets #greatest #greatest blessing

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time. ↗

— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

#fast #first #gave #happened #i