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Isoroku Yamamoto

"A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack."

Source : Remark to to Ogata Taketora, the Editor in Chief of Asahi Shimbun, on January 09, 1942. "The Reluctant Admiral". Book by Hiroyuki Agawa, 1979.

Isoroku Yamamoto

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“A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.”
“No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
“Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.”
“If you're creating a smile in yourself and also giving it to someone else, then you've started a dialogue. You also start to play.”

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“The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.”

Source : Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”
“A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.”
“The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.”
“It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.”

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