Dan Webster Quotes

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

If the worst comes to the worst, gentlemen, I shall know what to do.

A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.

We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.

..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

When the gun shoots, you got to go.

Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an Indonesian recipe.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.