Ira Glass Quotes

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• I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down…
• We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
• It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your…
• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
• The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
• You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
• You just have to fight your way through.
• I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.
• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something…
• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts…
• You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what…
• Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into…
• I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through…
• You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
• Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
• In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
• I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.
• If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

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