Herbert Bayard Swope famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
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Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
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The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
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It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.
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Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
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The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.
-- Herbert Bayard Swope
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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The things that make me different are the things that make me.
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When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
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Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
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Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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