Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.
—Eric Sevareid
Topics: Knowledge
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
—Eric Sevareid
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.
—Eric Sevareid
Topics: Christmas
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
—Eric Sevareid
Topics: Freedom
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.
—Eric Sevareid
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
—Eric Sevareid
Topics: Problems
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper’s principle: “The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.”
—Eric Sevareid
Topics: Perseverance
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
—Eric Sevareid
Topics: Christmas
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
—Eric Sevareid
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
—Eric Sevareid
Topics: Television
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