Imbalances of Power http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/opinion/21friedman.html, May 21, 2008.
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1943315,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/24/schroeder.blair/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20030621143902/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s865620.htm
2000s
“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
Variant: If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.”
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 8.
“I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.”
Source: Twisted
