Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

I like to make people think a little bit.

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be.

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

I can't watch the news. It's extremely unsettling. Certain people can be a little desensitized because of movies, and I'm totally a part of that world, so I understand. But when you're actually seeing what's happening, you can't help but be a little affected.

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

Television leaves no external scars.

TV is part of your life - it makes you feel connected to the rest of the world - as opposed to someone else's perspective crushed into a few hours.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

Whether or not you're aware of it or not, you're taking the information you get from watching TV and putting it in your brain.

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing.

How did it make you feel?