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Jim Mattis Quotes

In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: September 8, 1950

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Leadership Home Age Service Trust

I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.

Day I Am Mind Feel Doing Meaning

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

Wine Restaurant Year You Go Know

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Simon Conway Morris

History Evil Opinion No Sense Human

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

Love Man Attention Person Why Try

The European leagues have been there a long time, the coaches have been there, the clubs have been there, there's history to the teams. There's already that football support culture.

History Time Culture Football Long

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Change Men Never Only Wisest

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

Good Think You First Always Asking

The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity.

Power Government World Voice America

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

Moment Government Me Without Decide

Aspects of guilt or handwringing that one might expect in a film set in the '50s about women who discover their love for other women - a lot of these things are not in 'Carol.'

Love Women Guilt Things Expect Film

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.

Mind Me Person Know Hollywood Deaf

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Myself Challenge Me Reach Now Years

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