"Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential."

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Eric Burns

#Greatness Quotes #Execution Quotes

“By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I got no rise as such out of it... for the most part. But the figuring it out, the challenge -- the stalking and doing it right, successfully -- that excited me a lot. The greater the odds against me, the more juice I got out of it.”
“He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day and looks like a ***** today.”
“So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.”
“Intentions are a lot like seeds. You shove them into the ground, and every once in awhile, you water them. Largely, the seed does most of the work on its own. If, on one hand, you were digging the seed up several times a day to see what progress was being made, the seed would not take purchase in the soil. On the other hand, if you completely ignored it, giving no water or nourishment to the soil, the seed might not thrive.”
“We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.”
“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.”

Source : 1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.9.
“I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.”
“My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.”

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