True Subordinates Quotes & Sayings

Give them your brains, girl, never your guts. — Nora Roberts

The true man of genius deliberately subordinates himself, reduces himself to a negative, and allows his genius to play through him as It will. We all know how stupid we are when we try to do things. Seek to make any other muscle work as consistently as your heart does without your silly interference
you cannot keep it up for forty-eight hours. — Aleister Crowley

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there. — Ursula Nordstrom

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden

How we live as leaders matters. — Michael Hyatt

The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap. — Ellen Hopkins

What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being. — Georges Bataille

So, at the last, a story. — Justin Cronin

Thus, Moltke believed that the higher the commander's position, the less prescriptive his orders should be to his subordinates. He argued that a large numbers of orders, or verbose orders, could confuse leaders on the commander's true intent. This problem could compound itself through every echelon of command making it difficult for a division, or even a brigade commander, to decipher the reason for the mission.[22] — Major Michael J. Gunther

Cure the body with means of the senses and the senses with means of the body — Oscar Wilde