Ira Glass
Ira Glass
Ira Jeffrey Glassis an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth3 March 1959
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
empathy joy world
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
criticize something-better
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
couple ambition years
What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
heart years interesting
I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.
jobs stupid college
You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.
jobs fall dust
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.'
empathy joy stories
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
heart fearless want
You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
fighting way
You just have to fight your way through.
graduation fighting way
It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.
ideas shows
Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
jobs ideas waiting
Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
radio admitting speak
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
stay-strong fun hotel
Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?