A Quote by Marshall McLuhan

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.

Marshall McLuhan

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Behind Both Content Corporate Experience Generation Meaning Meaning Of New New Situations Private Situation Situations

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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian - Sociologist
July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

Austin Ligon

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

Max Lucado

You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.

Haley Bennett

Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

Chokwe Lumumba

Filming typically takes a bit away from the climbing experience, since you have to stop all the time and shoot.

Alex Honnold

Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.

Watt Key

I don't typically pay attention to most things in life, let alone award season. Not because I think it's silly. I just don't typically get caught up in it.

Thomas Middleditch

Yes, Jews - typically American Jews, typically vote democrat, I get that.

Eric Bolling

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.

Jhonen Vasquez

When people talk about how the Internet has changed the way we travel, they typically lament the way our compulsion to document removes us, somehow, from the actual experience.

Jenna Wortham

It turns out, in fact, that 'theories of meaning' are typically not about meaning in an everyday or 'folk' sense at all. They are theories designed to compute the truth or assertibility conditions of sentences from their components.

David E. Cooper

I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.

Karamo Brown

I've got cabinet experience, military experience, and private sector experience.

Erin O'Toole

Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by all; there is typically a fringe of dissidents. With very rare exceptions - in fact, it's hard to think of any - they suffer in one or another way; how depends on the nature of the society.

Noam Chomsky

What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison population is because they typically receive longer sentences than non-violent offenders.