Nick Quotes

Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.

Companies are missing out on phenomenal skills and capabilities of experienced older job hunters: wealth of knowledge, expertise, seasoning, maturity. Companies need to be reminded of that.

It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.

I don't think social commentary should be planned, you just have to be truthful.

I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.

As you get older you also start to lose your anger a bit.

I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.

Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.

You have to get lucky. Whether that's a good captain's pick, or two rookies combining for five points, if you get that, those are points you really aren't expecting.

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

My time with my family is a priority.

These big Internationals, they don't let you down

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get.

The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

I'd like to play the voice of the Iron in the Monopoly movie.