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“Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
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“Real progress comes from people.”
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“Most of us spend our lives convinced that there's something missing: "If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different wife, a different.... If only I could upgrade somehow, then I would be okay."”
Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
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“The world will end before there is another .400 hitter. . . . I think that was mentioned in the Bible.”
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“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”
Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.174, Oxford University Press
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“Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.”
Source : "The Listener" Magazine, 1978.
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“The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish part of me that is just a journalist, is thrilled. I want newspapers to succeed. Let's take the Guardian, which is a new competitor in the digital age. Does it make me nervous that they compete with us and in fact beat us on the Snowden story? Yes. The part of me that's a competitive journalist and wants to fight and play says: bring them on! It's more fun that way.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
