E. G. Marshall Quotes

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

There are no dumb questions?only dumb answers.

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

When we do what we have to do we are compliant. When we do what we choose to do we are committed.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps. A plan becomes a reality only when you take action.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

We go forward looking in the rearview mirror.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.