Paul Simon Quotes

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

When you are caught with a big shot, you don't really feel it. It's like being in a car crash, and maybe your arm has been ripped off... it is only when you look down at it that you realise it has happened.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

Breaking news is a thing that's on TV all day. 10 or 15 years ago, breaking news would get everybody around the table because it was going to be something huge.

No, you don't get it, thats why I'm telling you. You think you get it, which isn't the same as actually getting it. Get it? (Kakashi)

If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

Seems like every other day there's somebody on the news, somebody gets killed or does something crazy and all the neighbors and everybody says, "I can't believe he did that, I can't believe she did that."

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat.

I have not moved out of the comedian's box into the news box. The news box is moving towards me.

If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

The news is challenging right now. One hard thing about it is that often things don't lend themselves to good explanations or we don't have enough information. So we are sometimes in pretty murky waters, as everyone is. But it's an era where people's anxiety about what's going on and need to understand what's happening around them has created a real demand for news coverage that's dedicated to filling that need.