Top 56 Abramson Quotes
#1. The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
Gail Sheehy
#2. The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'Times' alleged sexist pay discrepancy only made those shock waves stronger.
Ben Shapiro
#3. I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.
Jill Abramson
#4. Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.
Neil Abramson
#5. As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
Jill Abramson
#6. Over the years, I've worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.
Jill Abramson
#7. My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; but that is so hard. My admiration for women who are good at that is unbridled. Women in general have a harder time talking about money with their bosses.
Jill Abramson
#8. What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.
Jill Abramson
#9. The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before.
Jill Abramson
#10. I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.
Neil Abramson
#11. Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.
Jill Abramson
#12. Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.
Jill Abramson
#13. I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
Jill Abramson
#14. I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
Jill Abramson
#15. There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.
Jill Abramson
#16. I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.
Jill Abramson
#17. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.
Jill Abramson
#18. A familiar oak tree. A pine needle carpeted forest. She searches for secret messages from her dead father. The big house fills the background. Wind carries a sound of distant crying, and a plaintive voice sounding like her sister.
Michael Abramson
#19. Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.
Jill Abramson
#20. With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.
Jill Abramson
#21. Actually, I liked the fact that happenstance had brought him to the right place; it was comforting to know that that life would support us if only we were listening.
Neil Abramson
#22. I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.
Jill Abramson
#23. In 1955, amid the great fanfare that accompanied the initial release of the [polio] vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk was asked who owned the patent. He replied, "Well, the people, I would say. Could you patent the sun?
John Abramson
#24. The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.
Jill Abramson
#25. The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.
Jill Abramson
#27. I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.
Jill Abramson
#28. I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
Jill Abramson
#29. People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
Jill Abramson
#30. The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
Jill Abramson
#31. Pessimism, cynicism and fear will only lead to a very small life. Don't live small.
Neil Abramson
#32. The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.
Jill Abramson
#33. Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.
Jill Abramson
#34. ...the shadows thrown by a single candle flame often can be more frightening that total darkness.
Neil Abramson
#35. I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.
Jill Abramson
#36. As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
Jill Abramson
#37. I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
Jill Abramson
#38. In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
Jill Abramson
#39. We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant,
Jill Abramson
#40. God lives in the peaks and valleys, the jarring transitions, not in the mundane, the safe, the smooth, or the repetitive. But that means there must be at least a certain amount of dissonance. Without dissonance, there is no need of belief, and without belief there surely is no God.
Neil Abramson
#41. A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.
Jill Abramson
#42. Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.
Jill Abramson
#43. We could all use the power of prayer now and then, but it seems to me that the people who are sure they have a direct line to heaven are most often calling collect with bad news.
Mark Abramson
#45. You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.'
Jill Abramson
#46. You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.
Jill Abramson
#48. I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.
Jill Abramson
#50. I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.
Jill Abramson
#51. I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.
Jill Abramson
#53. When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.
Jill Abramson
#54. I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.
Jill Abramson
#55. I was raised to believe that God speaks in the language of sacrifice," he told me, "You are expected to sacrifice because it is the measure of the depth of your belief ...
Neil Abramson
#56. I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.
Jill Abramson
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