David Halberstam Quotes

he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

Education was central to reporting.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.