
“To keep the five guys who hate you away from the other five guys who are undecided.”
On the secrets of managing; as quoted in "Once Over Lightly" by Van Thomas, in The Longview News-Journal (March 5, 1974), p. 1-B
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“To keep the five guys who hate you away from the other five guys who are undecided.”
On the secrets of managing; as quoted in "Once Over Lightly" by Van Thomas, in The Longview News-Journal (March 5, 1974), p. 1-B
On roles he looks for, as quoted in "Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart dead at 89" at CNN (2 July 1997) http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9707/02/stewart.obit.7p/
“The enlisted guys will be okay, but the officers get the sense of humor trained out of ’em.”
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 11 (p. 113)
“Okay you guys, pair up in threes!”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, , p. 123.
Yogiisms
Variant: Pair up in threes.
“What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.”
Source: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 5
Source: Speaking in 1958 with Charles Hamblett; as quoted in The Hollywood Cage (1969) by Hamblett, reproduced in "The Hollywood Cage': Wayne Has Method, Goldwyn Has Hope, Welles Has Wasteland" by Hamblett, The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 4, 1969), p. 109
Context: That's the John Wayne method.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story
On boxing
Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra (2008)