A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end, he realized that prayer is listening.


Soren Kierkegaard

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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particu...
TABITHA SOREN
At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific ...
TABITHA SOREN
Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
TABITHA SOREN
At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news...
TABITHA SOREN
When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I ...
TABITHA SOREN
You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years...
TABITHA SOREN
The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
TABITHA SOREN
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from...
TABITHA SOREN
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, ...
TABITHA SOREN
Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
TABITHA SOREN
It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the ...
TABITHA SOREN
It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't pro...
TABITHA SOREN
In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in th...
TABITHA SOREN
If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with i...
TABITHA SOREN
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audien...
TABITHA SOREN
I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
TABITHA SOREN
I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
TABITHA SOREN
I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audienc...
TABITHA SOREN
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIRKEGAARD
In 2008, Nokia expects that 3 billion people will be owning a mobile phone, with much of this growth...
SOREN PETERSEN
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We preten...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Once you label me you negate me.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My hon...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can l...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed tha...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of s...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, th...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD