Quotes by Journalists - Page 100

For the one who writes it . . . a story is like a mirror.
Sylvia Iparraguirre
So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about ‘those people’. Because I think we’re all ‘those people’.
Jeanette Walls
Gene, you wouldn’t know a good story if it was tattooed on the end of your prick.
Marcus Berkmann
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
Lionel Shriver
How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.
Peter Heller
What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.
Brigid Schulte
Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.
Tom Vanderbilt
In fact, when you're mindful, you actually feel irritation more keenly. However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw you, it's easier to stop getting carried away.
Dan Harris
Dalai Lama: "If a scientist confirm nonexistence of something we believe, then we have to accept that."Dan Harris: "So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?"Dalai Lama: "Oh yes. Yes.
Dan Harris
When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.
Dan Harris
A big part of (Janice) Marturano's success in bringing mindfulness to this unlikely venue was that she talked about it not as a "spiritual" exercise but instead as something that made you a "better leader" and "more focused," and that enhanced your "creativity and innovation." She didn't even like the term "stress reduction." "For a lot of us," she said, "we think that having stress in our lives isn't a bad thing. It gives us an edge.
Dan Harris
...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.
Dan Harris
All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)
Dan Harris
If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)
Dan Harris
If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?
Dan Harris
Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.
Dan Harris
I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.
Matthew Norman
Find the good, and praise it.
Alex Haley
Best wishes to all the fonts in all the texts in all the books that make for a world of unfolding stories.
Michael Ray Smith
Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.
Stefan Fatsis
Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.
Stefan Fatsis
Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.
Xinran
Your breakthrough is on the way. Don't be discouraged if things are not working out right now. God is working it all out behind the scenes. It may not come when you want, but trust that it will be right on time, because our God is an on time God.
Germany Kent
to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia, that we have a) made up our minds about what we think, b) closed our minds to what others think, and c) chosen to go on hearing nothing with which we happen to disagree.
Howard Jacobson
The only problem with the Angels' new image was that the outlaws themselves didn't understand it. It puzzled them to be treated as symbolic heroes by people with whom they had almost nothing in common. Yet they were gaining access to a whole reservoir of women, booze, drugs and new action -- which they were eager to get their hands on, and symbolism be damned. But they could never get the hang of the role they were expected to play, and insisted on ad-libbing the lines. This fouled their channels of communication, which made them nervous ... and after a brief whirl on the hipster party circuit, all but a few decided it was both cheaper and easier, in the long run, to buy their own booze and hustle a less complicated breed of pussy.
Hunter S. Thompson
When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means—for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.
Sydney J. Harris
Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin
John Geddes
The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams.
Kevin Roose
Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then you become good enough to improvise all the time. Writing is somewhat more like classical composition, where established forms and conditions will hold greater sway.
Robert Lane Greene
Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.
Robert Lane Greene
To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world's humans either speak and something primitive or speak something badly.
Robert Lane Greene
Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.
Ron Suskind
Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.
Bernard Werber
The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.
Daniel Alarcón
The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.
Jonah Lehrer
a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.
George Orwell
Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.
Jeff Jarvis
Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.
David Brooks
The telephone was a sign of being rushed.
David Halberstam
The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.
David Halberstam
he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.
David Halberstam
(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate
Robert A. Caro
If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.
David Halberstam
(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),
David Halberstam
Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.
David Halberstam
Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.
Robert A. Caro
Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.
Michael White
I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.
A.J. Jacobs
G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.
A.J. Jacobs
Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words.
Clarice Lispector
As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.
Richard Brookhiser
Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.
Richard Brookhiser
Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.
Richard Brookhiser
Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.
George F. Will
More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and antagonistic entities that no longer speak the same language and cannot communicate. This is the divide between a literate, marginalized minority and those who have been consumed by an illiterate mass culture.
Chris Hedges
Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first to feel that everything is changing too quickly around us, and we won't be the last. Throughout history, communication technologies have been catalysts of societal and cultural change that upset the status quo.
Alfred Hermida
Everything is in the way the material is composed.
Joseph O'Connor
Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you said what you said. It reminds me of what my mother said when she said what she said, and that hurts me so that's where I'm at with this, and it's not all right with me for today.' This should help to avoid a lot of communication problems.
Judith Stone
Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat when it takes several minutes to thrust it home. By the time you strike, even you no longer understand what had seemed so witty before you started to dictate it, letter by letter. So the rule is to avoid impulsive sallies. It deprives conversation of its sparkle, all those gems you bat back and forth like a ball-and I count this forced lack of humor one of the great drawbacks of my condition.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.
Margaret Craven