Dean Rusk famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.
-- Dean Rusk

#Listening #Way #Persuasion
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state
-- Dean Rusk

#Thinking #Giving #Machines
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
-- Dean Rusk

#Time #Two #People
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
-- Dean Rusk

#People #Evil #Usual
If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.
-- Dean Rusk

#Change #Firsts #Attention
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
-- Dean Rusk

#Air #Doe #Situation
We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.
-- Dean Rusk

#War #Thinking #Cold
When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.
-- Dean Rusk

#Thank God #Goes On #Next
The best way to persuade is with your ears.
-- Dean Rusk

#Life #Advice #Ears
The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks
-- Dean Rusk

#Giving #United States #Cows
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
-- Dean Rusk

#Mean #Two #World
While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
-- Dean Rusk

#Sleep #Two #World

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