Ira Glass famous quotes

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
-- Ira Glass

#Important

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
-- Ira Glass

#Inspirational #Stories

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
-- Ira Glass

#Empathy #Joy #World

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
-- Ira Glass

#Enough #Said #Importance

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
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#Criticize #Something Better

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
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#Inspirational #Graduation #Stress

I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.
-- Ira Glass

#Heart #Years #Interesting

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
-- Ira Glass

#Joy #Empathy #Facts

What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
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#Couple #Ambition #Years

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
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#Heart #Fearless #Want

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
-- Ira Glass

#Thinking #Space #Long

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.
-- Ira Glass

#Graduation #Fighting #Way

You just have to fight your way through.
-- Ira Glass

#Fighting #Way

I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
-- Ira Glass

#Talking #People #Shows

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
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#Voice #Sound #Care

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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#Different #Stories #Radio

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
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#Ignorant #Stories #Movement

I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
-- Ira Glass

#News

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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#College #Class #Fiction

I can only control what I can control.
-- Ira Glass

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
-- Ira Glass

#Worried #Conversation #Persons

I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
-- Ira Glass

#Ideas #People #Stories

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
-- Ira Glass

#Character #Emotional #Thinking

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.
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#Funny Graduation #Wish #Littles

...uncorny, human sized drama
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#Drama #Humans

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
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#Ambition #Gaps #Volume

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
-- Ira Glass

#Stay Strong #Strong #Fun

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.
-- Ira Glass

#Jobs #Stupid #College

I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.
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#Block #Pigs #Sun

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
-- Ira Glass

#People #Half #Way

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
-- Ira Glass

#Jobs #Ideas #Waiting

Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
-- Ira Glass

#Ideas #Shows

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
-- Ira Glass

#Admitting #Radio #Speak

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
-- Ira Glass

#Mean #Air #People

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...
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#Writing #Aerodynamics #Law

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
-- Ira Glass

#Portraits #Torture

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.
-- Ira Glass

#People #Creative #Wish

It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.
-- Ira Glass

#Ambition #Fighting #Way

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.
-- Ira Glass

#Ideas

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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#Thinking #People #Radio

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
-- Ira Glass

#Issues #Interesting #Burning

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
-- Ira Glass

#Fun #Loud #Carver

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
-- Ira Glass

#Book #Two #My Family

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
-- Ira Glass

#Different #Needs #Purpose

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
-- Ira Glass

#People #World #Speech

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
-- Ira Glass

#Writing #Creating #Lucky

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
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#Trying #Gold

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.
-- Ira Glass

#Trying #Want #Stuff