"One practical point many experts will attest to is that if you want to develop someone as a leader, give them lots of responsibility early in their lives and careers. The military does that. I can remember being officer of the deck on a destroyer, on watch and in charge at two in the morning as we plowed through the Mediterranean while 300 shipmates slept below decks. I was 25 at the time. I don't know how much of a leader I ever became, but the experience certainly brought home to me a sense of responsibility for others."

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Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

Walter Kiechel

#Morning Quotes #Military Quotes #Home Quotes

“Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.”

Source : Ruth Whitman (1990). “Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990”, p.66, Wayne State University Press
“Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.”
“This is going to sound clichÃ© perhaps, but I would say to not second-guess yourself. It's difficult to talk about because gender does play into directing, of course, but it's very hard to talk about. Maybe the worst part is what you internalize.”
“A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

Source : "Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People" by Darrin Zeer, (p. 52), 2000.
“Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'”
“And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government.”

Source : Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 26, 2012.
“I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.”

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