Quotes About Withholding Information

#1. The illusion of depth in a character is created simply by withholding information from an audience. A character will seem complex and intriguing only if we don't know the reasons why.

Eleanor Catton

#2. I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Amisha Patel

#3. Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

Eason Jordan

#4. Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Edward Teller

#5. I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.

Sally Helgesen

#7. when asking someone to make a judgment call in a volatile environment, consider withholding historical information so that he or she can focus on contextual information. More data isn't always better.

Anonymous

#8. Waiters and waitresses are becoming nicer and much more caring. I used to pay my check, they would say "Thank you." That's now escalated into "You care care of yourself, now." The other day I paid my check and the waiter said, "Don't put off that mammogram."

Rita Rudner

#9. communicating fully and openly, by not withholding or misleading. There is no doubt that our decision-making is better if we are able to draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group. But as valuable as the information is

Ed Catmull

#10. Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

Keith Ferrazzi

#11. Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Bruce Coville

#12. Two conclusions follow, die a death, live a death.

Aporva Kala

#13. 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

Joe Lieberman

#14. They always try to trick you, deliberately throwing extraneous plot lines just to confuse and misguide you, withholding important information until the last chapter, using vague and misleading descriptions so you don't notice something that should be plain as day.

Moxie Mezcal

#15. You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ...

Robert McKee

#16. A child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.

Michael Oakeshott

#17. The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

David Whyte

#18. I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.

Mindy Kaling

#19. You're my sweet, sexy, goddess of love and I want you and every beautiful little thing that you make.

Giselle Fox

#20. Modern Slavery is not being shipped on boats; it is encouraging welfare programs and withholding information from the people that will aid them in making informed decisions.

Josephine Akhagbeme

#21. It ain't over 'til it's over.
-Yogi Berra

Wes Phelan

#22. He felt like a chess-master who, two moves from achieving checkmate, suddenly sees a live kitten dropped on to the middle of the board, scattering pieces.

Frances Hardinge

#23. giving just a smile, or an encouraging word to somebody, just being nice to somebody-it doesnt cost anything, but means everything

Joni Meyer-Crothers