Sadoski Thomas Quotes & Sayings

We're giving up free range, getting organized, feathering our emotions. Efficiency an effectiveness and all those other pieces of intellectual artifice. And with the loss of free range, the cowboy disappears, along with the mountain lion and gray wolf. There's not much room left for travelers. — Robert James Waller

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way. — Thomas Sadoski

I can't imagine my life without doing theater. — Thomas Sadoski

For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do. — Thomas Sadoski

Deadlines? Surely you know someone who is late all the time. Someone who can't deliver anything of value unless they've stalled so much they've created an urgency, an emergency that requires mind-blowing effort and adrenaline to deliver. This is not efficient or reliable behavior, and yet they persist. The reason is simple: they can't push through the common fear of completion unless they can create a greater fear of total failure. — Seth Godin

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community. — Thomas Sadoski

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later. — Thomas Sadoski

There's no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism. — Alan Hirsch

I have a Twitter account. I own my name, but I've never tweeted. — Thomas Sadoski

Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things in a different way. Places look different in the early-morning hours, when the streets are deserted. I've smelled crabs boiling on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco on my way to the Golden Gate Bridge, watched the sun rise over Diamond Head in Hawaii, and seen deer grazing on the Alps in St. Moritz, Switzerland. I clearly remember turning to my husband, Jack, in one of these places and saying, 'People don't know what they're missing.' — Grete Waitz

I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could. — Jon Oringer

Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people who are legitimately attempting to deliver honest news are really facing a tough, uphill climb that's a lot harder than any other time in history. — Thomas Sadoski

The spiritual energy of our time, as I've come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which we've ordered our common life for many decades - law, politics, economics, science. It is, rather, a realization that these disciplines have a limited scope. They can't ask ultimate questions ... they don't begin to tell us how to order our astonishments, what matters in life, what matters in a death, how to love, how we can be of service to each other. These are the kinds of questions religion arose to address and religions traditions are keepers of conversation across generations about them. — Krista Tippett

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny. — Thomas Sadoski

Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you. — Thomas Sadoski

I have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs that they have to do. I am much more in awe of and am celebratory of great journalism when I see it, and I'm much more critical of bad journalism, or crap masquerading as journalism. — Thomas Sadoski

I hit the trifecta on 'Law & Order': I did the original recipe, extra crispy and the Colonel's special. — Thomas Sadoski

I'm a walking advertisement for PBS and for the Discovery Channel. All of my DVR settings are pretty much set to record anything that's on the Discovery Channel. I'm a big fan of 'MythBusters' and 'Deadliest Catch,' and I'm constantly watching 'Moyers & Company' and the 'NewsHour' and 'Antiques Roadshow.' — Thomas Sadoski

Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it. — Sharon Law Tucker

I don't speak a lot when I get home, during the season. It's great. I just get to sit and listen. My wife gets to tell me whatever she wants to tell me, and I don't talk. I'm too exhausted to talk, so I'm a very good listener. — Thomas Sadoski

Young people are not only rebels. They have a special heart. — Gloria Trevi

The one thing I'm very aware of is I've never been particularly good at relationships. — Thomas Sadoski

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel. — Thomas Sadoski

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often. — Tori Amos

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society. — Thomas Sadoski

One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is largely a product of the Internet revolution. Inexpensive, borderless, real-time networking provides advocacy non-governmental organizations [NGOs] with economies of scale and also of scope by linking widely disparate groups with one common theme. — Sylvia Ostry

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. — Thomas Sadoski

I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why. — Thomas Sadoski

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people. — Thomas Sadoski