"The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling."

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Ernest King

#Mark Quotes #Situation Quotes

“The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?”
“When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.”
“Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.”
“I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.”

Source : "20 Questions With Brooks & Dunn". The CMT Interview, www.cmt.com. October 19, 2004.
“I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.”
“Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.”

Source : Naomi Klein (2000). “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies”, Vintage Canada
“Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.”
“But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.”

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