190 Quotes by ira glass

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

You’d think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

I suppose I shouldn’t go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life’s questions is often in someone else’s face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people’s faces.

One reason I do the live shows – and the monthly speeches at public radio stations – is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It’s so easy to forget that.

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn’t fun?

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there’s not much evidence of it.

Force yourself through the work, force the skills to comes; that’s the hardest phase; I feel like your problem is that you’re trying to judge all things in abstract before you do them. That is your tragic mistake.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don’t just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you’re just like, ‘This is the part of the day when I’m looking for an idea.’