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Edward R. Murrow - From the Communication category:
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Difficulty category:
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Fame category:
Fame is morally neutral. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Importance category:
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Influence category:
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Information category:
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Obligation category:
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Politics category:
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Practice category:
We cannot make good news out of bad practice. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Seeing category:
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Technology category:
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Truth category:
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Understanding category:
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Wisdom category:
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. (Edward R. Murrow)
Edward R. Murrow - From the Writing category:
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone. (Edward R. Murrow)
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