Kingman Brewster, Jr.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#expectation #greater #his #relying #satisfaction

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#assure #conscious #i #quite #refuge

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#goldfish #live #televised

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#incomprehensible #jargon #profession

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#daily #doing #interesting #life #make

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#factual #forth #hard #indisputable #information

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#believed #calm #capacity #cool #coolness

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#anything #briefing #dreadfully #function #i

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#fit #fits #listener #must #newspaper

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited