As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinBy giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar WildeI’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
Christopher HitchensThe extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon BonaparteI’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.
Anthony BourdainIf anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.
Angelina JolieThere’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.
Stephen HawkingThe soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
Eckhart TolleI’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.
Anthony BourdainWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas JeffersonAll thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel KantJournalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMy purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.
Wayne DyerThe experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Franz KafkaWill and intellect are one and the same thing.
Baruch SpinozaThe painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
Leonardo da VinciThere’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.
Eckhart TolleHow can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
PlatoFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon BonaparteNewspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur SchopenhauerOf all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas CarlyleWhen you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
Eckhart TolleThe smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren BuffettThe major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.
Ray BradburyThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas CarlyleI love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.
Angelina JolieThe movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiHere’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
Frank OceanFor me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
Alice WalkerIn the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
Carl JungI’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
Anthony HopkinsThe ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.
William JamesThe spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
Leonardo da VinciJournalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur SchopenhauerJournalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
Terry PratchettEarly in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George OrwellIf people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Thomas SowellThe key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Lao TzuThere should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar WildeI think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.
Stephen HawkingI had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
J. ColeI sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
Eckhart TolleWe are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Virginia WoolfRemorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques RousseauHeadlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
Bill GatesWe think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.
Douglas AdamsI need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.
Steven WrightI became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.
Christopher HitchensWhat a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
Dan QuayleI was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.
Terry PratchettOur normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William JamesThere have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
Elon MuskI became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat… colourful. That’s when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.
Terry PratchettThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeHumanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinYou will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.
Margaret AtwoodJournalism keeps you planted in the earth.
Ray BradburyIf I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe press is the enemy.
Richard M. Nixon