
“I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!”
Interview 2006. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ohEz13V1Vhk&feature=related
Attributed to Wieschaus in Together to Fly http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S19/55/05Q60/index.xml?section=science
“I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!”
Interview 2006. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ohEz13V1Vhk&feature=related
“Don't tell me what I should do until you show me what you can do.”
[Basedow, John, Fitness Made Simple : The Power to Change Your Body, the Power to Change Your Life, 2008, McGraw-Hill, New York, 0071497080, 49]
“I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.”
To his staffers, as quoted in General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (1991) by Ed Cray, p. 591
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
Variant: Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications
Tell Her About It.
Song lyrics, An Innocent Man (1983)
“Do you want to tell me what this is about, or should I just call the police?”
"And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see."
Clary and Jace, pg. 44
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)