"You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can think of, obviously, is Lance Armstrong, who got it all wrong. Who wanted to apologize strategically, instead of abjectly. What got me interested was the repetitive nature of it. There's something so ritualized about it. Then the ritual needs to be reenacted very carefully and pretty frequently - Tiger Woods, and now Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong, and a little earlier Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jonathan Dee

#Thinking Quotes #Done Quotes #Apologizing Quotes

“If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.29, Vintage
“We'll be getting rid of these people here... First, Mr. Samir Naga... Naga... Naga... Not gonna work here anymore, anyway.”
“No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.”
“Sometimes you'll read something and think, "What is going on here? There must be more to this." The constraints of the news format didn't allow for more detail, or the writer didn't see it or just wasn't interested.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's not me that's obsessed with my weight, it's everyone else. I know that I'm healthy, so I don't really feel the need to answer to anyone. I've never substituted a meal for a salad in my life.”
“Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption”
“The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.”
“A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.”

Source : Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.107, Pearson Education

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