Erik Wemple quotes

“If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.”
-- Erik Wemple

#Running Quotes #Trying Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.”
-- Erik Wemple

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

#Hands Quotes #White Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.”
-- Erik Wemple

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

#Hygiene Quotes #Organization Quotes #Two Quotes

“While there are several challenges, I do believe that over the transition and into the Trump presidency, the media as a whole has done pretty good work, as opposed to a spottier record during the campaign. There has been a lot of shoe-leather reporting going on, and the great story thus far of the Trump White House is the willingness of people who work there to leak to the media.”
-- Erik Wemple

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

#Believe Quotes #Media Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.”

“I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com

“Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.”

“When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U

“Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.”

“Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.”

“Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.”

Source : "USA Today founder Al Neuharth dies in Florida at 89". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2013.

“I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen”