Top 19 Minow's Quotes
#1. Success may be measured by things (prosperity, property, positions, possessions) but GREATNESS (Leadership) can only be measured by PEOPLE.
Fela Durotoye
#2. You have a problem, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Ray Charles do in a situation like this?
Howard Korder
#3. What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.
Newton N. Minow
#4. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air ... and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.
Newton N. Minow
#5. Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of comparison to shut off any understanding of our connections with one another as human beings, we risk becoming something less than human ourselves. (7)
Martha Minow
#6. When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.
Newton N. Minow
#8. In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.
Eric Schneiderman
#9. As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit.
Bobby Lee
#10. Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
Newton N. Minow
#11. All to prove to her I'm not lying and I'm not sleeping around on her. She's a vagina with arms, and legs, and two faces. Do you know what it's like to have your penis ridden by a two-hundred thirty pound woman?" He stood now, looking traumatized.
Lucian Bane
#12. As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
Fernando Pessoa
#13. We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.
Newton N. Minow
#14. On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. "Why?" he asked. "Because," I said, "this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men.
Newton N. Minow
#16. A sensitive nose isn't always that great a gift. Plenty of smells are better unsmelt.
Ann H. Gabhart
#17. perhaps that's what we thought we were. Benevolent gods.
Now look at us.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#18. We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
Newton N. Minow
#19. Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
