Dean Rusk Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.”
-- Dean Rusk

#Listening Quotes #Way Quotes #Persuasion Quotes
“Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state”
-- Dean Rusk

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Machines Quotes
“One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.”
-- Dean Rusk

#Time Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes
“The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.”
-- Dean Rusk

#People Quotes #Evil Quotes #Usual Quotes
“If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.”
-- Dean Rusk

#Change Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Attention Quotes
“Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.”
-- Dean Rusk

#Air Quotes #Doe Quotes #Situation Quotes
“We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.”
-- Dean Rusk

Source : Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cold Quotes
“When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.”
-- Dean Rusk

#Thank God Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Next Quotes
“The best way to persuade is with your ears.”
-- Dean Rusk

#Life Quotes #Advice Quotes #Ears Quotes
“The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks”
-- Dean Rusk

#Giving Quotes #United States Quotes #Cows Quotes
“Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.”
-- Dean Rusk

Source : Speech to American Bar Association, Atlanta, Ga., 22 Oct. 1964

#Mean Quotes #Two Quotes #World Quotes
“While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.”
-- Dean Rusk

#Sleep Quotes #Two Quotes #World Quotes

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