Aspiring Journalist Quotes

#1. Newsweek never hired women as writers and only one or two female staffers were promoted to that rank no matter how talented they were ... Any aspiring journalist who was interviewed for a job was told, If you want to be a writer, go somewhere else
women don't write at Newsweek.

Lynn Povich

#2. (aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)
'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'
This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.

Elizabeth Massie

#3. Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

Rebecca Mead

#4. We have won freedom, he brooded, but if we abuse it, or vote for cheap personal advantage, it won't be worth having. We are familiar with the abuses of kings, but because what we now attempt is new, we can't foresee its abuses. They'll come.

James A. Michener

#5. What I did at the memorial, was listen.
To the laughter and the tears, and to the quiet stillness that followed.

Nathan Filer

#6. A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.

Steve Maraboli

#7. If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death.

Kristin Cashore

#8. It doesn't matter what your name is!

Dwayne Johnson

#9. Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

John Boyne

#10. The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

Erich Fromm

#11. Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

Dennis Bakke

#12. A smile is the universal welcome.

Max Eastman

#13. I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

Sue Townsend

#14. It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

Thomas Aquinas

#15. What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.

Julian Barnes

#16. There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George Dennison Prentice