Wu Ta-ch'i famous quotes

Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy.
-- Wu Ta-ch'i

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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.

The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

No one pays me to be nice.

Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.