"It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading."

-- George S. Patton

#Military Quotes #Moving Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.”
“Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.”

Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2008). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.196, Springer Science & Business Media
“I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.”
“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
“There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting,”
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”

Source : "The Law". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.
“It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology are teaching us how to work with the checks and balances of nature, and encouraging a new, rational, limited-input, environmentally sound means of vineyard management that offers a third way between the ideologically driven approach of Biodynamics and conventional chemical-based agricultural systems.”

Source : Jamie Goode (2005). “The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass”, p.60, Univ of California Press
“If you lead with passion anything is possible!”

Source : FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Nov 02, 2011

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