Eric Shinseki Quotes

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Eric Shinseki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 28, 1942

Topics

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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

John F. Kennedy

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When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

Michael Graves

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The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more useful his findings will be.

Stephen J. Dubner

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I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Tracy Chapman

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I kinda feel that my brother wrote some of the best country lyrics ever - 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew,' 'Mississippi Kid' and that little hit 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

Johnny Van Zant

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In 2001, terrorism was fought in a completely different way.

Corey Hawkins

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I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Colin Egglesfield

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We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

Bruce Lipton

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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Alistair Cooke

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For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can.

William Moseley

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With the traditional six-month lead time on the delivery of international show content, designer collections can be outpaced by the so-called fast fashion chains. H&M, Topshop and Zara, or even Target and J. Crew, would have their versions for sale before the designer looks hit the stores.

Suzy Menkes

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It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.

Sherwood Schwartz

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