Ron Suskind Quotes

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• Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?
• We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will -…
• Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.
• It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.
• If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the…
• Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.
• A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.
• Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
• Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
• Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert…
• Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.
• These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
• For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.
• Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students,…
• Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and…
• The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up…
• Confidence is the public face of competence,
• The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
• To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to…
• I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of…

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