“It's important to know what you don't want, but it's vital to know what you DO want.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 152
Speech to the Army ordinance Association (11 October 1939); The Papers of George Catlett Marshall Vol 2 (1986) by the George C. Marshall Foundation http://www.marshallfoundation.org/index.html, Ch. 2 "The Time Factor"
Context: You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration — and vital is the correct meaning of the term — of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.
“It's important to know what you don't want, but it's vital to know what you DO want.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 152
Four in America (1933)
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 5
Session 426, Page 25
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 9
Letter to Bishop Doyle, 1831 (O’Connell Correspondence, Vol IV, Letter No. 1860).
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 121
"Deputy Pm Nguyen Tan Dung Speaks At John Hopkins University" https://vietnamembassy-usa.org/relations/deputy-pm-nguyen-tan-dung-speaks-john-hopkins-university (10 December 2021)
General Election: Leanne Wood decides against MP bid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-39683573, BBC News, 23 April 2017
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