Bad news Quote by Benjamin Percy Download Open image ““The best way to mess with the head of your reader is to strategize the delivery of bad news.”” — Benjamin Percy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad news Books Writing-books
“The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.” — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have often found that bad news is best told quickly, before it has time to fester.” — Manda Collins Copy Share Image
“People LOVE giving bad news. They love it. This is because negative information GREATLY empowers the giver and makes them feel important.” — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
“WARNING: Brain dribble from a writer could cause good literature for the reader.” — Brick Marlin Copy Share Image
“To make matters worse, the general secretary—by his own account—gauged the significance of Stasi reports by the extent to which they matched his own… — Jens Gieseke Copy Share Image
“I needed to remind myself that good news and bad news are often relative to your expectations, not anything absolute.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“It's funny how people handle bad news in different ways, Some people have a visceral reaction, Some people go into denial and others ...… — Scrubs J.D Copy Share Image
“However let's turn the coin, what if we choose not to broadcast the bad news but choose to broadcast mostly good news? How would… — Tracy Sillato Copy Share Image
“One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something… — Wynant Davis Hubbard Copy Share Image
I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don’t know shit.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown steadily over fifteen years of marriage, of the stretch marks and the varicose veins that came from two pregnancies, only one of them fulfilled, she thinks the inside of her body must tell a story like… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share
“The seagull doesn’t mean anything,” I said. “It’s just a seagull. It’s there for beach ambience.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“It’s like this. Terror might make someone kill, but love will make someone die. People die for love. They would give up anything for… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to be a… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand from there and I'm thinking about books novels. I've got these scrolls of paper that I hang up in my office and this is my idea room, my nightmare factory, and I have a big title at the… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share
“Books are like batteries, he says. And you grow a little stronger by reading them, surrounding yourself with them.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Her husband once said that he believed some sort of mathematical equation could be applied to life - since the longer you lived, the greater its seeming velocity. She always attributed this to familiarity. If you kept the same habits - and if you lived in the same place, worked in the same place - then you no longer spent… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share
In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people. — Brian J. Smith Copy Share Image
“I remember a man, a very lonely man, coming up to me at the end of a reading and looking into my face and saying, 'I feel as if I have looked down a corridor and seen into your soul.' And I looked at him and said, 'You haven't.' You know, Here's the good news and the bad news: you… — Marie Howe Copy Share
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If there's one thing you should know about me it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive.… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share
“The bad news is that, measured in terms of geologic time, if the Earth’s history is an accurate guide, glaciers will soon return to… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image