Life Quote by David Halberstam Download Open image “Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.” — David Halberstam ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Love Love & life Love & relationship Memories Memory Relationship Truth Want
“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“Theodore Sorensen wrote for [Robert Kennedy's 1968] announcement speech: “At stake is not simply the leadership of our party, and even our own country,… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“For there was no doubt in Bundy’s mind about his ability to handle... the world. The job was not just a happenstance thing; he… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing” — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Day after day we read about them, each new man more brilliant than the last. They were not just an all-star first team, but… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past. — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“The good reporters of that era, those who were well educated and who were enlightened themselves and worked for enlightened organizations, liked the Kennedys… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.” — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
