Tom Freston Quotes

#1. I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.

Shane Smith

#2. I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

Tom Freston

#3. The principle part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

#4. If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

Tom Freston

#5. Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.

Tom Freston

#6. I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

Tom Freston

#7. HARHARBLOODY HAR. Put that in your pipe hole and smoke it, society!

Helen Fielding

#8. I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

Tom Freston

#9. When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.

Dana Arcuri

#10. Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

Tom Freston

#11. When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

Tom Freston

#12. I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.

Tom Freston

#13. Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

Tom Freston

#14. I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

Tom Freston

#15. Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

Tom Freston

#16. I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.

Audra McDonald

#17. Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

Tom Freston

#18. People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.

Tom Freston

#19. Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

Tom Freston

#20. Regardless of what you plan on when you fall in love, significant others come and go in your life. Your friends are it. My friends are my everything.

Sophia Bush

#21. The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

Tom Freston

#22. To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn't permit a middle road.

Sukarno

#23. We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

Tom Freston

#24. Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

Albert Camus

#25. A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

Tom Freston

#26. In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.

Steve Aylett

#27. Authenticity is really important, and sometimes that's really hard to get.

Tom Freston

#28. I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

Phoebe Philo

#29. Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.

Tom Freston