Mike Wallace Quotes
I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
Quotes to Explore
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
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For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.
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I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.
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Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.
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I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.
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The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
