"Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense."

-- Peter R. Mansoor

#Defense Quotes #Habit Quotes #Secretary Quotes

“As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.”
“Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.”
“Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.”
“You see, I know change I see change I embody change All we do is change Yeah, I know change We are born to change We sometimes regard it as a metaphor That reflects the way things ought to be In fact change takes time It exceeds expectations It requires both now and then See, although the players change The song remains the same And the truth is... You gotta have the balls to change”
“Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.”

Source : Aaron Hill, James Cawthorn, Michael Bruce (1822). “The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce”, p.43
“It's not that I want to win, it's just that I don't want to lose.”
“I have always had to write songs. As a lifestyle and as a business model, it's pretty difficult. Largely at this point I'm so deep in. I have a lot of skills in this particular world, but it just feels compulsive.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.”

Source : Coleman Barks (2010). “The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition”, p.13, Harper Collins

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