“You can´t just tell people what to do and then expect them to perform well.”
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War As I Knew It (1947) "Reflections and Suggestions"
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 32 : Morning
Context: One of the ghosts — an old woman — beckoned, urging her to come close.
Then she spoke, and Mary heard her say:
"Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories."
That was all, and then she was gone. It was one of those moments when we suddenly recall a dream that we’ve unaccountably forgotten, and back in a flood comes all the emotion we felt in our sleep. It was the dream she’d tried to describe to Atal, the night picture; but as Mary tried to find it again, it dissolved and drifted apart, just as these presences did in the open air. The dream was gone.
All that was left was the sweetness of that feeling, and the injunction to tell them stories.
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
19 November 1745
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”
Source: Dreamland (2000)
“People do what you inspect, not what you expect.”
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? (2002)