Jonah Berger quote: "Harnessing the power of word of mouth, online or offline, requires understand why people talk and why some things get talked about and shared more than others. The psychology of sharing. The science of social transmission."

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Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conser...
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It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the o...
JONAH LOMU

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactl...
JONAH HILL

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing a...
JONAH GOLDBERG

I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe...
JONAH PERETTI

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitt...
JONAH GOLDBERG

I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're r...
JONAH PERETTI

It annoys me when people who don't know what they're talking about boo the referee.
JONAH LOMU

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate th...
JONAH GOLDBERG

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happene...
JONAH LOMU

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were ...
JONAH GOLDBERG

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the righ...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugb...
JONAH LOMU

I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that w...
JONAH HILL

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a ...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing...
JONAH HILL

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JONAH HILL

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He g...
JONAH HILL

My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dra...
JONAH HILL

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We...
JONAH GOLDBERG

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be...
JONAH HILL

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movi...
JONAH HILL

Everywhere, unthinking mobs of 'independent thinkers' wield tired cliches like cudgels, pummeling th...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.
JONAH HILL

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.
JONAH GOLDBERG

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy a...
JONAH HILL

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available for...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Editors exist [because] most people don't have time to rummage through vast piles of hay for the spe...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Everyone moralizes. The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it ha...
JONAH GOLDBERG

It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotis...
JONAH GOLDBERG

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.
JONAH GOLDBERG

serpents.
JONAH GOLDBERG

[T]he most dishonest argument about security cameras, searches, profiling, etc....is that they won't...
JONAH GOLDBERG

This is not a story anymore about George Bush's service in the National Guard. It's a story about CB...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Fox simply has an immunity to a lot of criticism, ... The base who's watching has already signed up;...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Most conservatives, I think, want Bush to succeed and would be eager to mend fences with a new nomin...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it migh...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting ...
JONAH LEHRER

It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
JONAH LOMU

When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you...
JONAH HILL

We do a lot with a little. We also have composed modern classical music for orchestras, so that help...
JONAH RAPINO

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible a...
JONAH GOLDBERG

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.
JONAH HILL

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of t...
JONAH LOMU

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from ...
JONAH GOLDBERG

I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing t...
JONAH HILL

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over...
JONAH LOMU

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined fo...
JONAH GOLDBERG

I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends...
JONAH HILL

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.
JONAH RAPINO

Keep people in your life who light your flame, rotten apple's spoil the rest.
EKOW JONAH

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your relig...
JONAH PERETTI

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I...
JONAH LEHRER

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!
JONAH GOLDBERG

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the firs...
JONAH HILL

Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.
JONAH GOLDBERG

…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. ...
JONAH GOLDBERG

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicki...
JONAH GOLDBERG

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think...
JONAH GOLDBERG

The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all foll...
JONAH LEHRER

[The Wall Street Journal editorial page blames] a basic media mistrust of the military that goes bac...
JONAH GOLDBERG

ever I read liberals reporting about the goings on of conservatives I always get the nature-document...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Men are disgusting and, left to their own devices, they will affront the central tenets of human dec...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Liberty has turned into licentiousness, and tolerance for dissenters has become little more than ran...
JONAH GOLDBERG

One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left c...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they cham...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Chest hair is back, like fanny packs and aviators. I want it to grow.
JONAH ENBAR

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to...
JONAH LEHRER

I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy.
JONAH HILL

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.
JONAH LEHRER

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you ge...
JONAH HILL

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm ...
JONAH HILL

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now ther...
JONAH LEHRER

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and mur...
JONAH GOLDBERG

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-ev...
JONAH LEHRER

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do...
JONAH LOMU

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'
JONAH HILL

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollar...
JONAH PERETTI

It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me f...
JONAH PERETTI

And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football a...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to ...
JONAH LEHRER

Meryl Streep once testified famously before Congress, saying that she was there to represent the uni...
JONAH GOLDBERG

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to...
JONAH HILL

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin...
JONAH GOLDBERG

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved d...
JONAH LEHRER

I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as m...
JONAH HILL

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the b...
JONAH HILL

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to ...
JONAH LOMU

'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing aroun...
JONAH HILL

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less ta...
JONAH LEHRER

And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.
JONAH WINTER

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, the...
JONAH LEHRER

People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
JONAH LEHRER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, ...
JOHN BERGER

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circums...
JOHN BERGER

Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No b...
JOHN BERGER

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either activel...
JOHN BERGER

In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's ...
JOHN BERGER

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one ...
HANS BERGER

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which ...
HANS BERGER

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is ...
JOHN BERGER

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGER

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics,...
JOHN BERGER

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is...
JOHN BERGER

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
SALLY BERGER

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
THOMAS BERGER

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, ...
JOHN BERGER

What is art but a way of seeing?
THOMAS BERGER

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course...
JOHN BERGER

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result...
JOHN BERGER

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosop...
JOHN BERGER

Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seei...
JOHN BERGER

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for i...
JOHN BERGER

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the ...
JOHN BERGER

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet n...
JOHN BERGER

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of...
JOHN BERGER

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
JOHN BERGER

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of...
JOHN BERGER

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of ...
JOHN BERGER

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of ta...
JOHN BERGER

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themsel...
JOHN BERGER

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and e...
JOHN BERGER

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. N...
JOHN BERGER

Nakedness reveals itself.
Nudity is placed on display.
The nude is condemned to never
being...
JOHN BERGER

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original hum...
JOHN BERGER

One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely bec...
JOHN BERGER

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first lea...
JOHN BERGER

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that can...
JOHN BERGER

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. ...
JOHN BERGER

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is...
JOHN BERGER

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Od...
JOHN BERGER

Publicity is the life of this culture -- in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive...
JOHN BERGER

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
JOHN BERGER

The human imagination...has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist...
JOHN BERGER

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent tha...
JOHN BERGER

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so ...
JOHN BERGER

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always...
JOHN BERGER

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off ...
JOHN BERGER

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learni...
JOHN BERGER

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.
JOHN BERGER

The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their ...
JOHN BERGER

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because ...
JOHN BERGER

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
JOHN BERGER

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble ...
JOHN BERGER

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish we...
THOMAS BERGER

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
THOMAS BERGER

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics det...
JOHN BERGER

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do t...
JOHN BERGER

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or thre...
JOHN BERGER

We are accused of being obsessed by property. The truth is the other way round. It is the society an...
JOHN BERGER

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
JOHN BERGER

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered...
JOHN BERGER

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
THOMAS BERGER

We read and reread the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them, to reach, to t...
JOHN BERGER

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive ...
JOHN BERGER

The one thing is that they haven't had a whole lot of coaching. So it's kind of like when you say so...
BRIAN BERGER

It's just an incredible group. The other classes started with seven or eight (players) and we ended ...
BRIAN BERGER

It's important to work, but it is not OK when work takes away from education.
BRIAN BERGER

It tells them those days are over. We're headed in a different direction and it's going to get bette...
BRIAN BERGER

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.
BRIAN BERGER

We are delighted Nortel will bring its networking expertise to TNC and plans to support the open spe...
BRIAN BERGER

It's an interesting use model, delivering content in a protected way where the content owner or the ...
BRIAN BERGER

The platform integrity feature available with Wave's Embassy technology is one of the industry's fir...
BRIAN BERGER

Seen from a value perspective, it brings a lot of value to connected storage or other RAID-array typ...
BRIAN BERGER

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply in...
JOHN BERGER

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towar...
JOHN BERGER

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result...
JOHN BERGER

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation ...
JOHN BERGER

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I cou...
JOHN BERGER

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time ha...
JOHN BERGER

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGER

I don't think the defections we saw at Morgan Stanley when Purcell was running it earlier this year ...
CAROLE BERGER

Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has e...
JOHN BERGER

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
JOHN BERGER

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of...
JOHN BERGER

You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut
SALLY BERGER

The city finds herself, in mid-century, almost at the end of her land resources, ... the end now see...
MEYER BERGER

We don't think that a limited system, particularly if we proceed here in the context of a modified A...
SAMUEL BERGER

In that case, we just build ingredients and recipes from the region.
JUDITH BERGER

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.
SANDY BERGER

The equity business, which was on its back in April and May, came back.
CAROLE BERGER

It's one of those depressing defeats because we played well in every aspect, but we just shot horrib...
MATT BERGER

Many are dying every day. They deserve to know what happened to their fathers or their uncles. This ...
ARTHUR BERGER

Sixty years after the end of the war, it's time.
ARTHUR BERGER

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set....
JOHN BERGER

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of he...
JOHN BERGER

We're real excited about sending 11 to state. We also got a big boost from our junior varsity wrestl...
CURT BERGER

You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you calle...
JOHN BERGER

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading p...
JOHN BERGER

They are putting their hopes on a sharp snap-back in the market. Management has been in denial for a...
CRAIG BERGER

If there is a peace agreement, then we will have to consult with the Congress, and the president wil...
SAMUEL BERGER

It could very well mean that he knows that Renault do not have long term plans for formula one.
GERHARD BERGER

In 2007 they will be playing a game that they can win.
GERHARD BERGER

We had heard that the outcome could be considerably worse than it was, and we are absolutely thrille...
HOWARD BERGER

It?s just a lot of little things that have accumulated. I?m just too old for it. If you don?t have a...
ARTHUR BERGER

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, ...
JOHN BERGER

Harnessing the power of word of mouth, online or offline, requires understand why people talk and why some things get talked about and shared more than others. The psychology of sharing. The science of social transmission.

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Harnessing the power of word of mouth, online or offline, requires understand why people talk and why some things get talked about and shared more than others. The psychology of sharing. The science of social transmission.

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