Konner Quotes

#1. What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.

Edward Tufte

#2. Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less strong will lose that uniqueness they were born with.

Melvin Konner

#3. This life isn't bad for a first draft.

Joan Konner

#4. Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.

Joan Konner

#5. Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.

Joan Konner

#6. Love is transcending the ego to connect with another,

Joan Konner

#7. The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.

Robert P. T. Coffin

#8. I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

Kate Smith

#9. It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

Melvin Konner

#10. Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.

Norman Finkelstein

#11. Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier?

Friedrich Holderlin

#12. Journalism has always existed in two different realities ... the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.

Joan Konner

#13. NEVER TRUST a blanket statement. They're all false.

Peter Wisan

#14. A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological
indeed spiritual
dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.

Melvin Konner

#15. We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been.

George Eliot

#16. And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.

Joan Konner

#17. In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.

Melvin Konner

#18. The reason there are so many opinions is that no one knows the Truth.

Joan Konner

#19. In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

Walter Cronkite