Eric Sevareid Quotes


"The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Change, Society, American)

"The chief cause of problems is solutions."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Cause, Problems)

"Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Men, Power, Boys, Order, Want)

"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Day, Tomorrow)

"I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Power, Press, Worry)

"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Death, Being, Network)

"Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Home)

"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Trust, Doubt, Error, Man)

"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Men, Politics, Boys, Difference, Want)