Linda Vester famous quotes

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
-- Linda Vester

#Survival #Stories #Sometimes

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
-- Linda Vester

#Thinking #Anchors #Two

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
-- Linda Vester

#School #Emotional #House

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.
-- Linda Vester

#Nice #Sleep #Night

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
-- Linda Vester

#Faith #Challenges #Mind

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
-- Linda Vester

#Important #Stories #Sometimes

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
-- Linda Vester

#Support #Parent #Want

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.
-- Linda Vester

#Thinking #Married #Difficult

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.