Daniel Lyons Quotes

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

I graduated from Lehigh with a degree in journalism.

A+E Networks has been my home for over a decade. I am so proud of these brands and my A+E colleagues who are truly the best in the business.

The only reason I left the salon was really to chase these dreams of either being an MTV host or a travel host. I loved the idea of doing something fun and interesting for a living, and that is what got me over to Malaysia.

I was a sportscaster right out of school. I used to do the nightly newscast and the nightly sportscast and I would write, produce, do live shots. Yeah, I loved it. That's how I cut my teeth in the business.

If I didn't love acting, I would love to work at Google... if they'd have me. They have the coolest perks a workplace can have.

I believe companies like ours are going to be as large as media companies and social networking companies that are valued in the tens of billions of dollars.

I like working with television. I do.

I enjoy the company and interaction of people at work.

Never find yourself bored at work.

You never say never, but I am very, very comfortable in the position I'm in with 'Lucha Underground.' I love their schedule, I love their style, I love what they have to offer.

I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people. I feel like I'm the luckiest girl on earth, and that's such a lovely feeling.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

There are times I wish I didn't have a job, even though I love my job: I get to work with interesting, eccentric colleagues and equally interesting and eccentric subject matter, both of which are rarities. But, naturally, I would treasure having more freedom someday: of time and of movement. Will I always have a full-time job? I don't know. But I do know that I need to spend at least part of my week in an office, with other people.

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.