Sublime

Mis años de periodismo me han enseñado que en esas entrevistas personales se obtienen las claves, los motivos y las emociones de la historia, ninguna investigación de biblioteca puede reemplazar los datos de primera mano conseguidos en una conversación cara a cara.

The most effective bureaucrat is the best actor.

“It’s not that a listener forgets, but that the one who survives to tell the story is always addressing a changed world.

Man’s identification with his idea of himself gives him a specious and precarious sense of permanence. For this idea is relatively fixed, being based upon carefully selected memories of his past, memories which have a preserved and fixed character. Social convention encourages the fixity of the idea because the very usefulness of symbols depends

Without spectators the world would be imperfect; the participant, absorbed as he is in particular things and pressed by urgent business, cannot see how all the particular things in the world and every particular deed in the realm of human affairs fit together and produce a harmony, which itself is not given to sense perception, and this invisible

Everything you say to a person is filtered through his frames of reference, biases, and preconceived ideas. What remains is ultimately the message that he understands.

McAdams proposes that a person’s identity is formed by integrating life experiences into an internalised, evolving story that provides him or her with a sense of purpose.

conventions' and therefore as 'a fundamental ingredient of each of us'