Ryan Holiday Quotes

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've have never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

Our job [White House press secretaries] is to serve the interest of the President while recognizing the interests of the press.

If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.

Other reasons for requiring press officers to review interview requests were to have an orderly flow of information out of a sprawling agency and to avoid surprises. This is not about any individual or any issue like global warming. It's about coordination.

In politics, you don’t have to love the press; you don’t even have to like the press, but you sure as hell have to feed the press.

Nothing is so tantalizing to journalists as some answer they can't get. If you want to appeal to political journalists,…you hide something from us …

Whatever you can say in a meeting, you can put in an email. If I have questions, I'll tell you via email.

Talking to the press, you say things a little differently.

A race without journalists also has one advantage for Max: he does not have to give so many interviews.

Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such.

Journalists know other journalists - that's the only reason my engagement made it into the papers. I don't think real people are interested - just the media, just Twitter!

I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.

Every Hockey Canada event, the first day you just do a thousand interviews. You get used to it.

We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.

I think that casting shows are pretty good at teaching someone how to present themselves and how to handle the media.