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

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

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  2. When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job. – David Halberstam
  3. I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them. – Neil Gaiman
  4. I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. – Becca Fitzpatrick
  5. The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude. – David Halberstam
  6. When doing a job -” any job -” one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. – Hyman G Rickover
  7. You don’t think any job’s a job unless it’s your job. – Last Man Standing
  8. The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong. – David Halberstam
  9. I wanted to see her sad. Taste her tears. I wanted to know what she sounded like when she cried. In pain, in pleasure, in both. – TM Frazier
  10. man is always equal to his purpose; when you control him, you do half a job but when you control his purpose, you do a total job. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  11. Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life. – David Halberstam
  12. My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to…and all of our friends wanted to be there too. – Richie Norton
  13. One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone, and the man cannot look his wife in the eye. – Anita Shreve
  14. My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God’s hand. – David McGee
  15. I’m sorry, I say. I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
  16. The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function. – David Halberstam
  17. It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself. – David Halberstam
  18. All professions have some element of theater to them. – David Halberstam
  19. Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was-”by Time corporate standards-”just a little lazy. – David Halberstam
  20. Being well known for being well-known did not necessarily imply intelligence. – David Halberstam
  21. Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians, – David Halberstam
  22. If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm. – David Halberstam
  23. Until he (Time’s founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics. – David Halberstam
  24. Education was central to reporting. – David Halberstam
  25. Until he (Time’s founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics. – David Halberstam
  26. If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable. – David Halberstam
  27. (I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story), – David Halberstam
  28. Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple. – David Halberstam
  29. The telephone was a sign of being rushed. – David Halberstam
  30. he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves. – David Halberstam
  31. Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image. – David Halberstam
  32. It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do. – David Halberstam
  33. In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity. – David Halberstam
  34. He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups. – David Halberstam
  35. Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person-”the two are often different. – David Halberstam
  36. He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones. – David Halberstam
  37. The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it. – David Halberstam
  38. Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion. – David Halberstam
  39. It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven. – David Halberstam
  40. If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school. – David Halberstam

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