And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
More Quotes from John Pomfret:
The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.John Pomfret
But the difference is that in an overseas assignment there is an emphasis on the facts but there's also a much greater emphasis on interpretation.
John Pomfret
When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
John Pomfret
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
John Pomfret
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
John Pomfret
I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
John Pomfret
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Opportunity QuotesThis can not be about a race to the bottom.
Alexis Herman
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Tom Wolfe