"The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you."

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Source : John Gunther (1962). “A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books”

John Gunther

#Essence Quotes #Want Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”
“That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.”
“I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.”
“Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.”
“Failure is but the longer road to triumph.”
“I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.”
“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.”

Source : James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins
“Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.”

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