With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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