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The intensity of a fire, or a heavy concentration, to be a leader, you have to be able to concentrate on that fire and move just as soon as it stops or the last round hits.

Major Dick Winters

The paratroopers were the best soldiers at the infantry school and I wanted to be with the best.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

School Soldier Want
If combat had taught me anything, it taught me what was essential in life and what wasn’t.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Essential Life Teaching
We salute the rank not the man.
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Man Rank Slute Soldier
Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Permanent Problem Solution Suicide
War brings out the worst and the best in people. Wars do not make men great, but they do bring out the greatness in good men.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Greatness People War Worse
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Depart Footprints Leave Live Men Sane Sublime Time
It is far easier to find quiet than to find peace. True peace must come from within oneself.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Easy Oneself Peace Quiet
I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Life Peace Spend
The only thing I asked for now was to be alive tomorrow morning and to survive another day. That was all that mattered.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Alive Survive Tomorrow War
Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Concentration Men
We all experienced sleep deprivation at times – hat is the nature of stress but a physically exhausted leader routinely makes poor decisions in times of crisis.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Deprivation Exhaust Experience Hat Leadership Nature Physical Stress
There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Job Leadership Team Traning
That’s what officers must do – break the cycle of fear. If a soldier is concentrating on his own feelings and on his own fear, and he sees you moving around, he realizes that you’re sharing the burden with him. That’s why he can then move.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Cycle Fear Realize Share Soldier War
I have always prided myself that I do my own thinking. I have my own philosophy. I have my own answer to the reasons things have turned out in my life.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Answer Life Philosophy Pride Reason
As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Calculation Leadership Loss War
I would also urge leaders to remain humble. If you don’t worry about who gets the credit, you get a lot more done.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Credit Done Humble Leadership Urge Worry

The intensity of a fire, or a heavy concentration, to be a leader, you have to be able to concentrate on that fire and move just as soon as it stops or the last round hits.

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