Terry McDonell quotes

“I judge nothing; I just don't do that. Life is too complicated.”
-- Terry McDonell

#Judging Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“The mistake that people made around 2000 with the emergence of the web was that they thought that people would not read long-form on a screen. Following from that idea, they quit doing long-form on screens. It got shorter and shorter, and then came cats toying with flowers and all of those clichés, but it was wrong. People will read long-form on a device if they want to read long-form.”
-- Terry McDonell

#Mistake Quotes #Flower Quotes #Cat Quotes

“The more new thinking I did, the more successful it seemed to me that I could become. When magazines are really working, and when websites are really working, they're doing new things all the time, and discovering new writers to do stories, different ways to package stories. I was always very aware that I was very lucky to be doing what I was doing, because I would get up in the morning, and go to work, and the days would fly by.”
-- Terry McDonell

#Morning Quotes #Successful Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.”

Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.

“A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.”

Source : A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.5, Oxford Paperbacks

“When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?”

“Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.”

“A decision by the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or a decree may not be scrutinized by a judge. In addition, the judge is bound by any other decision of the Fuhrer.”

“People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.”

“I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.”

Source : Alex Katz, Vittoria Coen, Lisa Liebmann (1999). “Alex Katz. Catalogo della mostra”, Hopeful Monsters

“In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.”

“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.”

“Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.”