Money is neither good nor bad. It simply amplifies what is in the heart of the one who controls it.
In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.
I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.
Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the sound. I had a wooden apple box with a Piezo [contact] mic and little objects that I could amplify on the box. I used the bathtub for reverberation.
As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for "material. " Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.
Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.
Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.
Crystals amplify the consciousness.
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.
New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.
The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.
