"The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great."

-- Walter Savage Landor

#Kings Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Pedestal Quotes

“If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.”
“I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.”
“You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.”

Source : "Listen to the Admiral". Interview with Ann Louise Bardach, www.slate.com. December 16, 2004.
“The layering of sound is by no means a two-dimensional process. Even though I've been doing it for a number of years, the diversity of it is so intriguing. It's a bit like traveling across the water. Though you may have done it time and time again it always hits you in a different way.”
“When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.”
“I can't concentrate in flats. I could go to the gym if I wore flats, I'd love to go to the gym, but I just can't get my head around the footwear.”
“Many good American companies have respect for individuals, and practice Kaizen and other TPS {Toyota Production System} tools. But what is important is having all of the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent mannerâ€“not in spurtsâ€“in a concrete way on the shop floor.”
“To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

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