Douglas Adams Quotes

I do what the directors want me to do with all sincerity and devotion. And ultimately my sincerity pays.

The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.

I just have work to do; I just do it.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

It was a job, and I was just doing my job.

I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

I always voted at my party's call, And never thought of thinking for myself at all.

He learned too much and too early that victory goes to the discreet, that one does not speak one's opinion, that ideally one does not even develop one's opinion.

It's the way we are - our people show their respect to their leaders by keeping quiet. It is considered rude to speak your mind.

I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and then I go on to the next thing. That's my attitude.

I just try to do the things I'm asked to do.

I'm a worker bee.

Because I started at such a young age, I went in with a 'take what comes, do what I'm told' approach.

I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.

I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that's how I am. I'm true.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.