Ted Koppel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.
-- Ted Koppel

#Believe #Odds #Overcoming
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
-- Ted Koppel

#Strong #Medicine #Our Society
It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
-- Ted Koppel

#Scrapbooking #Nostalgia #Easy
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail Â as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.
-- Ted Koppel

#Inspiring #Practice #Morality
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
-- Ted Koppel

#Jobs #Media #People
A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change even before he took power in January 2001... It has been called a secret blueprint for US global domination. ... A small group of people with a plan to remove Saddam Hussein long before George W. Bush was elected president. ... And 9/11 provided the opportunity to set it in motion. Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow.
-- Ted Koppel

#Blow #Opportunity #Years
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.
-- Ted Koppel

#Inspirational #Important #Matter
Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
-- Ted Koppel

#Motivational #Sight #Goal
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
-- Ted Koppel

#Anchorman #Kings #President
You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.
-- Ted Koppel

#Degrees #Where You Are #Where You Are In Life
The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
-- Ted Koppel

#Jobs #Responsibility #Feels
If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.
-- Ted Koppel

#Teamwork #Ignorance #Understanding
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
-- Ted Koppel

#Loss #Perspective #Pay
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
-- Ted Koppel

#History #Tools #Politician
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
-- Ted Koppel

#Fashion #Inner Peace #Trends
I have the necessary lack of tact.
-- Ted Koppel

#Tact
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
-- Ted Koppel

#Years #Ideas #Npr
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
-- Ted Koppel

#Reality #People #Enough
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page
-- Ted Koppel

#New York #Pages #Fields
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common
-- Ted Koppel

#Special #Territory #Common
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
-- Ted Koppel

#Suggestions #Moses #Sinai
To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.
-- Ted Koppel

#Courage #Giving #Despair
Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?
-- Ted Koppel

#Nice #Say Anything

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