Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.
Let's shoot the works and win! Yes win it all.
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.
The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.