"I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon."

-- David Talbot

#Integrity Quotes #Teenager Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.”
“Drunk nerds. Not my thing.â€ â€œYou like nerds.â€ â€œNot nerds who join fraternities,â€ Cath said. â€œThatâ€™s a whole subclass of nerds that Iâ€™m not interested in.”
“The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everyting in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.”
“Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.”
“If you must make a difference in life, then change your mind set.”
“He who awaits much can expect little.”
“The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.”
“I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game”

Source : "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?". Book by Lou Gerstner, 2002.

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