"This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television."

-- Dan Rather

#Art Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Blow Quotes

“A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.”
“Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there”
“Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction...”
“If you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.”
“Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.”
“No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.”

Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.195, Random House
“The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play.”

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