A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
BOBBY KNIGHTCling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?
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My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: “The hell this ain’t the most important hole in the world . I’m in it.
BILL MAULDIN -
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
BOLESłAW PRUS -
Die, but do not retreat.
JOSEPH STALIN -
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
IRVIN D. YALOM -
I have a habit of recording records very quickly – and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I’m not focused on details, because I’m a freak when it comes to that.
BALTHAZAR GETTY -
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant.
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB -
I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
BILLY CONNOLLY -
Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
JEAN COCTEAU -
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
JOCKO WILLINK -
We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
JOCKO WILLINK -
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE -
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX -
I don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
EARTHA KITT