Nancy Gibbs Quotes
For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.
I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water...
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.
A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics, " Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.
I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
Right now, doctors can test for about 2, 500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
