Torquato Tasso Quotes

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Nations in great crises and difficulties have often done that which in their prosperous and powerful hour they would not have done.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty.

Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

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

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.

I find it easier to approach things from a critical angle that otherwise may seem daunting because I'm used to being scared.

When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

Each crisis is different, has its own specificities, and we need to look at it critically; look at each one in its own terms.

First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible.