Augustus William Hare Quotes

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Augustus William Hare

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• Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Been
  • Destination

• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Way
  • General
  • Microscope

• The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Working
  • Line
  • Destination

• The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Period
  • General

• In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • General
  • Vice
  • Comedians

• Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Politicians
  • Noise
  • General

• India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • High
  • Technology
  • Demand

• In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Like
  • Wonderful
  • General

• You don't want to get too wrapped up in that final destination. You want to enjoy the journey, enjoy the process, and just take it one step at a time.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Journey

• You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Destination
  • Los Angeles

• After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• We're happy to keep someone of Tom's caliber in Philadelphia. Tom has done an excellent job and it was important for this organization to have him continue in this general manager role for the foreseeable future.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Important
  • Done
  • Job

• She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • She
  • Way
  • Destination

• My priority is to give the general manager and head coach all the resources necessary to make the Browns successful.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Resources
  • General
  • Manager

• Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Fame
  • Streets
  • Destination

• Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, "I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there!" Then you get across the street and you're like, "Yeah I'm here!" And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Men
  • Fame
  • Destination

• He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Destination
  • Reached
  • Programme

• I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Morning

• I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Problem
  • Better
  • Start

• This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?

  

  Georges Perec
  • Space
  • Describe

• If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

  

  Augustus William Hare
  • Destination
  • General
  • Instructions