Quotes by Journalists - Page 80

It is understandable you would want to come back as yourself into a wonderland with the sharpness of colour of the Queen of Hearts in a newly opened pack of cards. But coming back as yourself is resurrection. It is uncommon.
J.M. Ledgard
As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it's easier if you've got company.
Kevin Roose
Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies.
Eduardo Galeano
Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.
George F. Will
It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.
Ron Suskind
To be a man, a boy must see a man.
J.R. Moehringer
Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.
David Brooks
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.
David Brooks
(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the head and the heart, making meaning of experience and finding an organizing purpose that you build a unique individual self.
David Brooks
Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking about, everyone is on their own. An admissions officer might bias her criteria slightly away from the Résumé God and toward the quirky kid. A student may privately wrestle with taking a summer camp job instead of an emotionally vacuous but résumé-padding internship. But these struggles are informal, isolated and semi-articulate.
David Brooks
How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?
David Brooks
If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
Alexandra Robbins
People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with death.
David Brooks
The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.
Jeff Jarvis
Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.
Robert A. Caro
There is an inverse relationship between control and trust. Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people, especially those in power, realize. Leaders in government, news media, universities, and corporations think they can own trust, when, of course, trust is given to them. Trust is earned with difficulty and lost with ease. When those institutions treat constituents like masses of fools, children, miscreants,or prisoners, when they simply don't listen,it's unlikely they will engender warm feelings of mutual respect. Trust is an act of opening up. It's a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing. The more ways you find to reveal yourself and listen to others, the more you will build trust, which is your brand.
Jeff Jarvis
Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.
Jonathan Darman
wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.
David Brooks
Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.
Jeff Jarvis
The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.
David Brooks
you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.
David Brooks
It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving.
Matt Labash
Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.
David Brooks
In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.
David Halberstam
He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.
David Halberstam
Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.
David Halberstam
Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.
David Halberstam
He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.
David Halberstam
The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.
David Halberstam
George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence
Henrik Bering
The more the world commits to programs for poverty and education, the greater the gap for those with intellectual disabilities. That’s because money goes where results are quick and quantifiable, which is not likely for people with intellectual disabilities.
LAWRENCE DOWNES
The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather than their bodies, who are burdened with too much knowledge about how the world works rather than excited about how it could work or should, who are afraid of being judged and not being loved. Most adults do not live in a world of forgiveness and unconditional love, unless, that is, they have small children.
Jennifer Senior
Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.
Jennifer Senior
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
David Brooks
It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.
David Halberstam
In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!
Lynne Olson
I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Intersections are crash magnets.
Tom Vanderbilt
With a more expansive stretch, there’s a better chance that I’ll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she’s smart and beautiful.
Frank Bruni
Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.
Richard Brookhiser
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
Richard Brookhiser
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
Richard Brookhiser
The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.
Richard Brookhiser
Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.
Ron Suskind
the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.
Geraldine Brooks
He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
Geraldine Brooks
You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.
Geraldine Brooks
It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.
Geraldine Brooks
It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.
Geraldine Brooks
He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.
Geraldine Brooks
It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.
Robert Kurson
Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.
Gail Collins
Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)
Malcolm Gladwell
Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of the human comedy.
Robert Harris
Why would a comediotic guy like Buzz Aldrin worry about who said what first? He was on the %$#@!+-oon!
Ray Palla
Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality...laughter is an orgasm of the mind.
Gloria Steinem
OTHER lives may find their happiest moments infiltrated with tragedy, and their proudest touched with comedy. This had almost invariably been true of mine. My proudest hour found me, the newly elected president of the United Nations, perched atop three thick New York City telephone books given me in lieu of a cushion that I might see and be seen by the delegates below the podium.
Carlos P. Romulo
If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.
Judith Stone
Each of us lives with a sword over his head.There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality.
Murray Kempton
Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social construct of religion.
David G. McAfee