“See? That's what happens when you keep people from doing what they do best: It makes them insane.”
Rene Balcer (1954) screenwriter, producer and director
Det. Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
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Source: The Dead Zone 1979
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
Context: These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day. The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves. I have no expectation that any man will read history aright, who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
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1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
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Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Liberal Magazine (January 1898), p. 530, quoted in John Wilson, C.B.: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (London: Constable, 1973), p. 232
