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Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: August 14, 1954

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Age Today Impact Tools Speed Will

It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.

Today Relationship Best Me Writing

I'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.

Work Opinion Better Than Much Very

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

Time Long You Go Know Where

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism Strong Feeling Country

Pay attention to how your thoughts change when you're faced with negative people. The more time you spend dreading, fretting, worrying, and rehashing, the less time you'll have to devote to more productive things. Make a conscious effort to reduce the amount of mental energy you expend on negative people.

Change Time Effort People Thoughts

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

Father Job Me Gay First Bar

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Funny Home Sad Stupid You Person

The rule is, you can protest all you want. Make all the noise you want. Carry all the signs you want. The minute you throw a rock, you get arrested. The minute you break a window, you get arrested. The minute you break into a store, you get arrested.

Window You Want Rock Signs Noise

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Love Poetry Me Interesting Formal

Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished.

Death Social Media New York Chance

Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.

Together Storm Wind Pressure Know

On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

Myself Show Been Every Played

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