Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, 'Sit down, you're done.' Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.

If you want to be rich, think big, think differently.

We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people!

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Work hard. Think big. Listen well.

I'll tell you what, our media is indeed sick and its making our country sick, and we're going to stop it.

With a free press comes a responsibility.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.

By thinking big, we can transform our world.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

I don't know if Mika Brzezinski intended to be that honest. She's very worried the president intimidating the media is gonna lead to people believing what the president says instead of what the media says, and it's the media's job to control what people think. She used the word "control." She worries that Donald Trump is acing them on this and her fear is rational, but her philosophy is off course, all wet.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.