Ron Suskind Quotes

• Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

  Ron Suskind

  Faces, Action, Competence

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• Confidence is the public face of competence.

  Ron Suskind

  Faces, Competence

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• The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

  Ron Suskind

  Faith, Unseen, Substance

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• Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

  Ron Suskind

  Powerful, Years, Denial

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

  Ron Suskind

  Passion, People, One Thing

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• Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

  Ron Suskind

  Self Confidence, Degrees, Bonus

  Ron Suskind (2012). “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President”, p.84, Harper Collins

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• Si escribes algo que no le gusta a la Casa Blanca, te cogen y te dicen: 'Si vuelves a escribir algo como lo que has hecho hoy, nadie de la Casa Blanca volverá a hablar contigo nunca más...'".

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, White, House

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• [Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.

  Ron Suskind

  Thinking, America, Done

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

  Ron Suskind

  Reality, Community, Guy

  "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush" by Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.

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• The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

  Ron Suskind

  Keys, Ideas, Two

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• These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

  Ron Suskind

  Lobbyists, Humans, Human Beings

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• [Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

  Ron Suskind

  Suffering, Disease, Bills

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Rechazo absolutamente esa idea de que la prensa es liberal y lo que hace es liberal. En mi opinión, es como acusar a un médico de mala praxis o a un abogado de prevaricación.

  Ron Suskind

  Doctors, Views, Ideas

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• It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

  Ron Suskind

  Kids, Irony, Exciting

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• For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

  Ron Suskind

  Thinking, Sometimes, Upbeat

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• The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.

  Ron Suskind

  New York, Team, Thinking

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

  Ron Suskind

  Skills, Leader, Littles

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• Elige tus palabras meticulosamente y luego deja que retumben desde algún profundo horno de convicción.

  Ron Suskind

  Conviction, Rumble, Furnaces

  Ron Suskind (2010). “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League”, p.114, Broadway Books

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• Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

  Ron Suskind

  Country, Independent, Cells

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• There are many instances in which those at the uppermost levels of the White House were feeling the President [Barack Obama] was not fully informed of the flow of events and, in some cases, where policies were going in the White House.

  Ron Suskind

  White, House, Feelings

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

  Ron Suskind

  Fall, Civilization, America

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• Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.

  Ron Suskind

  Summer, Self, Events

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• Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

  Ron Suskind

  Stress, Suffering, Stuff

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• Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

  Ron Suskind

  Kids, Ghetto, Drug

  Ron Suskind (2010). “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

  Ron Suskind

  America, Experts, Terrorism

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