"I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done."

-- George C. Marshall

#Assistants Quotes #Done Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.”
“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”
“Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.”
“What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?”

Source : "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.
“The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...”

Source : "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.
“An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.”
“I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.”
“Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.”

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