Quotes by Bob Edwards

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

— Bob Edwards

Education

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

— Bob Edwards

Friendship

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

— Bob Edwards

Success

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

— Bob Edwards

Life

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

— Bob Edwards

Success

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

— Bob Edwards

Life

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

Good things just keep happening.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

— Bob Edwards

Courage

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

— Bob Edwards

Hope

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

— Bob Edwards

Wisdom