Amy Waldman Quotes

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

CBS's Major Garrett writes in 'National Journal' about a new version of the 'stray voltage' theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.

To reach a mass audience, you have to offer more than just hostility.

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start the conversation, and how you end it, matters so much.

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.