“One thing you learn fast in the munitions business is that it’s a very good idea to stay off battlefields.”
Source: The Day After Judgment (1971), Chapter 11 (p. 145)
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“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Source: The Mind Of The Strategist, 1982, p. 12-13
Context: In business as on the battlefield, the object of strategy is to bring about the conditions most favorable to one's own side, judging precisely the right moment to attack or withdraw and always assessing the limits of compromise correctly. Besides the habit of analysis, what marks the mind of the strategist is an intellectual elasticity or flexibility that enables him to come up with realistic responses to changing situations, not simply to discriminate with great precision among different shades of gray.
Leo Lerman, Jane Fonda Talks About. Juxtaposition, 1971, said in reference to media reactions to her learning about Indian affairs.
As quoted by Francis Crick in his presentation "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology" http://oregonstate.edu/dept/Special_Collections/subpages/ahp/1995symposium/crick.html (1995).
1990s
Quote from De Kooning's speech 'What Abstract Art means to me' on the symposium 'What is Abstract At' - at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 5 February, 1951, n.p.
1950's
“We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.”
Speech to Kenan Ethics department, 2009.
Universal, 2009
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”