"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."

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Source : Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

John Abizaid

#Military Quotes #Boss Quotes #Als Quotes

“The way your life plays out depends on which dominoes you chose to push over and which ones you leave alone.”

Source : Dan Gutman (2009). “The Homework Machine”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.”

Source : Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
“I ain't never been hater. I ain't got no time.”
“When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.”
“I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.”
“The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.”
“It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.”
“Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than the notes on a page of music. They simply represent the experience.”

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