Robert M. Edsel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.
-- Robert M. Edsel

#Boss #Important #Want
We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.
-- Robert M. Edsel

#Thinking #Law #People
Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.
-- Robert M. Edsel

#Elderly #People #Listening
To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life of other men to save it, to give it all back to them as soon as the battle was wonâ€¦ it was unheard of, but that is exactly what Walker Hancock and the other Monuments Men intended to do.
-- Robert M. Edsel

#Men #Giving #Risk

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.
The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.
The search is more important than the destination
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.
You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

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