Indirect Action Quotes

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a kind of stumbling staccato. You had to finish sentences for him. So Andy operated through people who could do things for him. He wished things into happening, things he himself couldn't do.

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.

I never do anything normal anyway. I just get other people to do it now.

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.