"The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium."

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Source : Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (1954). “Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#War Quotes #Giving Quotes #Training Quotes

“I think my weight-training proved to me more than anything that I can do anything in life if I really put my mind to it. I saw me bring myself from 137 pounds to 175 pounds over a seven-year period. That alone said to me that all you have to do is really stick with something, and you can accomplish anything you want. It's brought me great self-esteem because I know I did it. I changed me.”
“About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.”
“Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.”
“I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out â€“ my heart leapt at the sight â€“ row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?”

Source : Keith Donohue (2011). “The Stolen Child”, p.88, Random House
“There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.”
“For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?”
“That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.”

Source : Charlas de Cafe
“You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.”

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