{"author":"Ron Suskind","author_id":"Ron+Suskind","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["discipleship","education","mentoring"],"id":4200,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"Islam is in a formative period struggling to consolidate the vast reach won by both inspiration and force at its founding. Two centuries along, the faith of Muhammad hangs like an intricate veil: a religion still searching for institutional wholeness, a set of lessons to live by.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["adaptive-leadership","culture","institutions","law","lowe"],"id":16842,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"Trust is something you have to practice. Someday you're going to fall in love with someone, and you need to understand what trust is all about. What you doing now is developing bad practices of betraying people's trust.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["dating","marriage","relationships"],"id":24893,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["boldness","calling","humility","job","servant-leadership","vocation"],"id":46295,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["bush-administration","dick-cheney","loyalty","plutocracy","u-s-politics","vendetta"],"id":50462,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["ego","leadership","self-centeredness","statecraft"],"id":60488,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["competence","confidence","marketing","professionalism"],"id":71155,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["confidence","explanation","humility","uncertainty"],"id":77442,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This steady stream of shocks and realizations leaves so many boys raised in poor, urban areas stumbling toward manhood with a hardened exterior masking deep insecurities.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["crisis","education","poverty"],"id":78604,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["gossip","perspective"],"id":81212,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}