Thomas Fuller Quotes

Power is competence.

I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

A plane is of no use without the man or woman who flies it!

The duties of the ruler are like those of the helmsman of a great ship. From his lofty position, he makes slight movements with his hands, and the ship, of itself, follows his desires and moves. This is the way whereby the one may control the ten thousand and by quiescence may regulate activity.

Teams know what I bring to the table.

The big element I think that I bring is that I am a veteran coach.

You always want to know you have somebody at the helm who knows what they're doing.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

The president has a big stick.

Man, I have absolutely zero ability into narrowing absolutely any of my favorites into just one, but I have to say, I gotta go between Undertaker and Triple H. Other than all the obvious reasons, but the biggest one for me, those are the only two guys, I could make a mistake and it would be okay. I could put the trust of the match, the story, and absolutely everything into their hands and let go of my control. I'm a control freak (laughs). Those are the only two guys I can let drive and take my hands off the steering wheel.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Along with the talent, you also need direction.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.