"The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story."

-- Bruce Feiler

#Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes #Way Quotes

“Twitter's a funny one, I mean, it's good in some respects but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up and people get being rude mixed up with that's my opinion.”
“Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were born with a complete map of this world already grafted onto the folds of your cerebellum and you are just spending your entire life figuring out how to access this map?”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.328, Penguin
“I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.”
“A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.23, Harvard University Press
“The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or exploit the folks, everyday Americans. Never before in the United States had a television news guy dared to criticize other journalists on a regular basis. The late Peter Jennings, a friend, told me I was crazy to do it. "These people will not allow anyone to scrutinize them," he said. "They will come after you with a vengeance." And so they have.”
“Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.”
“You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever felt that you really knew her and that it was what you knew that you loved, and if you remember what it was you once knew, why is it so crazy to retain that love still?”
“We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.”

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