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Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

I go back and think of President Kennedy, who had a military service background, but he comes into the presidency, and he's faced with a decision on the Bay of Pigs, with the C.I.A. and the military giving him data, and it turns out very badly.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Service Decision Think Giving Data

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Time Remember Now First Time First

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

John Cameron Mitchell

Abyss Always Laughing Favorite He

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil.

Michael Gove

Beginning Hotel Conservative Century

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

Stephen Frears

Good Thought You Never Up Where

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

Simon Baker

Without French Themselves

In New York, we get down. In L.A., everybody's pretty much standing around like they're at a keg stand. You got to get the party started, so I just take my shirt off.

Tracy Morgan

New York Stand You Down Party New

For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.

Tomi Adeyemi

Color Black Feel Know Want Seen

I'll campaign for anyone who's honest and who I like, irrespective of the party.

Mithun Chakraborty

Party Honest Who Like Campaign

As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.

Lloyd Blankfein

Work Job People Champion Feel Kind

I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

Josh Homme

Work Good Myself People Think Down

There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Future Live Innovation Exercise You

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

Dick Cheney

Family Freedom Time People Think