Good Information Quotes

When you’re in the public eye – whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way – you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information.

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.

I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

There’s so much more bad information than good information out there – everybody’s got something to say and it’s usually wrong.

Everything that happens in our lives is “good information” about the degree to which our choices are working for us. We can, however, choose to believe that we are a victim of the world we see, and have no choices. And, of course, we will receive “good information” about this belief as well.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.

The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it’s information. It’s getting the right, good information.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

It’s really difficult to get good information, and there’s a reason for that. They’re not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.

Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren’t black, Spanish, or a white freak.

There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . ‘Ain’t it awful?’ . . . or . . . ‘Good information!’ Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.

You just have to work, we all have to work really hard to take care of ourselves and feed ourselves good information, just like we feed ourselves good food. Feed ourselves good books and good messaging and the things that make us feel like we can be connected with ourselves and others in a deeper way.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company’s profits. Very few jobs allow you to do both at the same time, so enjoy.

Good information is the best medicine.