Arianna Huffington
(1950-)

Greek American Political Columnist

birthdate: July 15
birthplace:
Athens, Greece

QUOTES

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me." ~ Arianna Huffington

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid. ~ Arianna Huffington

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down." ~Arianna Huffington

"America is a country ready to be taken—in fact, longing to be taken—by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process."

"The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway."

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

Most human behavior is explained in terms of three instincts: survival, sex, and power. But there is a fourth instinct that explains our altruistic behavior. And there are some people in politics who are driven by that fourth instinct.

The more you challenge the fundamental ideas of the status quo, the more you have a responsibility to be 1,000 percent accurate.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

 

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