"I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do."

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Source : "General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman" by Ed Cray, (p. 591), 1991.

George C. Marshall

#Sitting Quotes #Asking Quotes #Want Quotes

“Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.”
“I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.”
“The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.”
“The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.”

Source : "Has Modern Science Bankrupted Our Souls?" by Bruce Lipton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2011.
“If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.”
“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.”
“In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.”
“When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.”

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