“Your future -our world's future- is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.240
“The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.”
— Bono
PENN Address (2004)
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Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
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“Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
Mistakenly attributed to Vladimir Mayakovsky in The Political Psyche (1993) by Andrew Samuels, p. 9; mistakenly attributed to Brecht in Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter (1993) by Peter McLaren and Peter Leonard, p. 80; variant translation: "Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it."
First recorded in Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution (1924; edited by William Keach (2005), Ch. 4: Futurism, p. 120): "Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes."
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“Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor
Attributed to Vladimir Mayakovsky in The Political Psyche (1993) by Andrew Samuels, p. 9; attributed to Bertolt Brecht in Paulo Freire : A Critical Encounter (1993) by Peter McLaren and Peter Leonard, p. 80
Variant translation: Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Dean Koontz book The Good Guy
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Source: The Good Guy (2007), Chapter 21, p. 147
“How you think matters more than what you think.”
Philip E. Tetlock (1954) American political science writer
Philip Tetlock, quoted in: Stewart Brand (2010). Whole Earth Discipline. p. 124
“What you breathe in this world may shape you.”
Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
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“You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock (1903–1998) American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care
First sentence. This is printed beneath the heading "Trust Yourself" , and thus is often quoted as "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. "
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945)