Thomas Friedman Quotes

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.

Great questions make great reporting.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

I enjoy seeing the press. I learn much from reporters. In the White House press corps alone there are at least half a dozen experts already on animal husbandry.

Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.

Men knew little, formerly, of what was passing beyond ... their own immediate neighborhood, but now, through the ... newspapers ... town and country, state and nation, and the most distant parts of the world are brought together, and whatever is new, rare and important, is conveyed with rapidity to every reader ... set forth in the most succinct manner, and in a style adapted to the comprehension of all.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

What I learned in school made me a better journalist and a better writer because forensic science is, as scientific disciplines must be, about critical thinking and objective analysis.

I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.

The seed idea for Rappler really is looking at information cascades. If you think about it, the end goal - when I was raising money for Rappler, I didn't talk about investigative journalism, even though that's our core.

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.

Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

I love journalism.

Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

That's my role, I go get news.