Fragmented Quotations

In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.

It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

Unlimited Edition is a very important development. Companies have had a very fragmented view of business processes; there hasn't been anything that allows them to get a 360 degree view of the customer. Now those using Unlimited Edition can standardize on the same kind of environment for all occasions. They can have integrated processes from one end of the enterprise to the other so that the problem of information silos can begin to abate.

With this move, our news division takes yet another giant leap forward. Katie is one of the best in the business. ... Seasoned broadcasters who are at once respected, charismatic and known throughout this country and beyond are increasingly important in this fragmented media landscape.

Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.

There are more choices for consumers. You see what's happening in the broadcast area. TV is becoming more fragmented and I do believe that will happen on the Web with more niche type sites and community type sites.

We set out to measure 25 brands in this growing hospitality category. However, in the minds of ultra-wealthy consumers, the Destination Club industry is still in its early stages of development. This is indicated by the dramatically low consumers awareness, rendering a large number of brands unable to be rated for lack of a reliable statistical sample. The category is populated with new brands with highly generic brand names. Many names are quite similar, generating a significant lack of differentiation in the minds of consumers. In this highly fragmented category, few brands have generated sufficient awareness, or differentiation, to make a strong impression on the wealthy. This accounts for the tight variances in scores across most dimensions on luxury status.

We have inherited a fragmented kind of system. No one has made a concerted effort to make this whole thing seamless.

This proposal emphasizes accountability. That is something that is long overdue. The fragmented structure that my colleagues have mentioned has prevented us from having accountability,

Seasoned broadcasters who are at once respected, charismatic and known throughout this country and beyond are increasingly important in this fragmented media landscape.

SEOs will be much more fragmented on different platforms within social networks. It'll help eliminate a lot of the search spammers, but is going to impact on anyone who gets rankings on search engines without having good content.

My feeling is it's far too fragmented a business for them to have any success finding any predatory pricing, collusion or a gentleman's agreement. The reality is California does not produce enough gasoline within its borders to satisfy demand.

I don't believe the big brands will be able to consolidate that fragmented market in the next 5 years.

I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet unable to bridge its own differences.

But it's likely it would get just a small piece of a fragmented market. They would have to staff up considerably to make an impact, in particular on the commercial side.

Fragmented boards can't have the expertise needed to review the Army Corps of Engineers plans for the levee system nor the clout to hold them accountable. Multiple boards cannot be part of a cohesive solution for the region. It is also reasonable to expect that a single board is going to be more efficient and cost effective yielding greater results everywhere for everyone.

What you're seeing now is the beginning of consolidation. Radio is still a pretty fragmented industry.

He didn't come across as a thug or as someone looking for trouble. He was a nice, articulate and charming guy. ... Local scenes in rap can be really fragmented but this may cause people to band together.

It is premature. We're a vast state with critical needs. If investment is put together in a fragmented way with initiatives by special interest groups, it is going to be haphazard.

It is a relatively fragmented marketplace. They seem convinced that the two lines are sufficiently differentiated that they don't constitute antitrust problems.

I think there's more of a need for China-based domestic services centered on the huge flow of products from China to North America. The current trucking capabilities are very fragmented ... Our belief is that companies like ours understand how to efficiently move large volumes on a continental or long-haul basis, and we are evaluating how we can assist companies that want to perform that type of transportation.

Jeff Blake is not only one of Sony's greatest assets, but I think he is recognized industry wide as one of the best in the business. As the marketing landscape changes and becomes more and more fragmented and the exhibition community faces the challenge of converting to digital cinema, there is no one better to guide us than Jeff Blake. He is truly second to no one and he inspires those around him to do their best work. We couldn't be more proud to recognize his extraordinary contributions with this promotion.

Our local competitors have fragmented audiences. As a result, we're the last mass medium. We're holding onto that audience better than anybody else, albeit it's slipping slowly each year.

The Asian rhino will only be saved from extinction if we can reduce the pervasive ongoing demand for traditional Asian medicine and restore its shrinking and fragmented habitat.

Most life insurance companies lack the critical mass to survive long term. The sector is highly fragmented and rife with overcapacity. We do not see how most of the smaller players can effectively compete and remain profitable in this environment.

We used an e-sourcing model for the bid. This allowed us to present one company to the carrier base as opposed to a fragmented approach.

We have seen that the unions are very fragmented now. We just don't feel like (labor's threatened campaign)... is anything we need to be concerned about.

When you have fragmented remains, each one is given a number, ... And you try to begin to relate certain pieces to one another and eventually relate all those pieces to a person.

We all know in the television business it's getting fragmented and harder to be heard among the voices out there.

We think small business in the US and other markets are very fragmented and a tremendous opportunity for a quasi-automated business model like we have to take advantage of.

Brands frantically tried to compete for users' fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant.

Even though CompUSA is number one and Computer City is number four, it still is such a highly fragmented market that they would not be able to control prices.

Corel is targeting the small-business market, which typically has 20 employees or less. This is a market that Microsoft has had trouble reaching because it's fragmented and has diverse business needs. Product loyalty is not as great and cost drives a lot of purchase decisions.

The steel industry has been very fragmented (in Europe)...and the automobile and packing industries have been exploiting that.

The target has always been the mid-week road warrior that was the baby boomer mentality. Now, the market is more fragmented and people are mixing business with leisure.

The three newcomers kind of had a rough time in this marketplace, ... We think the audiences were fragmented and sent in a lot of different directions.

Television has evolved from a mass media marketplace to a fragmented marketplace.

People go for different reasons. Consequently, it makes it more challenging for the league or a given team to put out a single, coherent marketing message that says, 'This is the reason you attend.' You see that throughout sports, but it's a little bit more fragmented in soccer because you have the multiple target markets and you have the difference in the style and size of the stadiums.

Ad inventory cuts are a necessary evil. I don't think it will stimulate accelerated growth. It will just allow the radio industry to remain competitive and maintain market share longer in an increasingly fragmented media environment.

This financing will help drive our aggressive growth as we seek to take advantage of consolidation in the fragmented outdoor lifestyle market,

Access to information was really limited. We had fragmented data sources, inconsistent metrics across the business, model assumptions that were different from business to business. It was a really fragmented way of doing business.

It's a steady growth market. It's also a fragmented market.

It wasn't what I would like it to be. I think we were spending a lot of money. We were building an architecture that was complicated. We had fragmented information.

Its all wrong, ... Lots of little computers are a terrible idea, you can't see the big picture because it's been you know, sliced and diced and it's stored in so many different locations. We've fragmented this information. It's impossible to know what's going on.

It's more about service, information and customer relations than metal- bending. It's also a fragmented market, ripe for consolidation.

Consumerism wants to make us as atomized as possiblebecause the more individualized we are the better consumers we are. This is why masculinity is so fragmented today and incoherentand irresponsible. It used to be the tradition. Literally passed down from father to son. But we live in a society where tradition stands in the way of profit. So bye-bye daddy.

It's virtually intact, heavily damaged of course, but not broken apart. The left engine was more fragmented into several large sections.

It turns out to be more important than we thought, ... We're at a stage now in the modern media where everything is so fragmented that the only things that bring us together in the public square are tragedies or disasters .. We look for someone to reassure us of a common purpose.

It takes an extraordinary level of financial strength to deploy such large amounts of capital in risky environments and a cyclical industry. Fragmented or financially insecure players cannot afford such risk. To achieve what we have set out to do, we need your help -- not new barriers.

They cannot have an overall, total correct view of reality because they see only a fragmented part of that reality.

They are obviously pirate services. Sure they might be able to survive as small businesses, but it's hard to get advertisers to advertise on a pirate site. It's a hugely fragmented market.

I'm not being overly critical but it could be smarter for Comcast to focus on the fragmented pieces in the (cable) industry, like Charter Communications, RCN and the smaller mom-and-pop type names, ... It may prove to be too much too soon if Roberts tries to run both cable and media businesses.

important that the team remain together and not become fragmented internally or externally as the result of a game like this.

In the final analysis we have managed to end 2005 with all the pieces that were fragmented throughout 2004 and working together with some clear direction.

In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

You could've done a killer 20-minute anthology of Motown that would've been educational to kids who didn't know what Motown was. And the people who lived through Motown would've loved its nostalgic value. ... But music is the hardest way to appeal to a mass audience because it's highly fragmented and you never get anything that everyone likes.

This is likely to remain a fragmented market. There will be some acquisitions but I don't see this as a massive rollup opportunity for larger software players.

This is likely to remain a fragmented market, ... There will be some acquisitions but I don't see this as a massive rollup opportunity for larger software players.

The equity of our celebrities now exceeds the equity of the media that gave them status in the first place. Film, television and radio are now so fragmented that the one thing we all share is the celebrities themselves. Celebrity has become the one common denominator.

And that is, in an increasingly fragmented society - I'm getting a little bit esoteric here - people like routine, people like familiarity.

The coupling of the physical world with the data world represents a challenging new frontier. These results in our survey express tremendous opportunity for these tools, with the market still fragmented and market share still up for grabs in this rapidly growing segment.

The Department of Justice received the case less than two weeks ago, and it could not evaluate the highly fragmented enterprise software marketplace in such a brief time,

The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into human beings with fragmented views of society. But what it does to everyone, it does to women even more.

The market out there is so fragmented and volatile right now that it's very hard to predict what will work and what won't.

The leadership is a little fragmented at this point, and they're dealing with both ends of the rainbow.