Daily Inspiration Quote by George Herman

"I like to live as big as I can" reads like a boast, but its real force is defensive: a declaration made against the background hum of limitation. Coming from a journalist, it’s less about champagne-and-spotlight excess than about scale in the only currency reporters reliably control: appetite. Big, here, is curiosity taken to an almost physical extreme - more streets walked, more people met, more rooms entered where you weren’t invited. It’s the working creed of someone who knows life shrinks fast if you let institutions, editors, schedules, and caution do the tightening.

The sentence is cleverly plain. No metaphors, no moral lesson, no self-help sheen. That flatness is the point: it sounds like common sense because it’s meant to be used, not admired. The subtext is that journalism can be a narrowing profession: deadlines turn days into units, and cynicism can become a form of self-protection. "As big as I can" implies both ambition and constraint, an acknowledgment that the world pushes back. It’s swagger with a limit built in, a line that makes room for failure and aging without surrendering the stance.

Contextually, for someone who lived from 1920 to 2005 - through war, boom years, cultural revolutions, and the professionalization of media - bigness is also resistance to smallness-by-bureaucracy. It’s a personal policy: stay porous, stay hungry, keep your life larger than your byline.