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Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989

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Discipline Habit Enough Easy Obey

I've always thought it's a great privilege to be a part of the NFL. Every day, you just treasure it.

Great Day Thought You Every Day NFL

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.

Jessica Chastain

Time People Me Feel Say Modern

I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! I'll be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!

Beauty Beautiful Challenge Creativity

You think Jay-Z is going broke? LeBron is going broke? These guys have figured it out. They came from poor backgrounds, broken homes, and they figured out how to be businessmen. They become new aspirations.

Broken Think You New Poor Become

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Decision Anything Infrastructure Make

My wife always says that I function better up on a big wall than I do anywhere else in life.

Life Wife Better Wall Always Big

If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.

Trouble Reason May Something Useful

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

Funny Step Me Friends Circle Quiet

A lot of people in my generation, we use hip-hop as a tool to compose.

People Generation Hip-Hop Tool Use

It was a very big decision when I decided to leave B. Tech to come to Mumbai. But they were always supportive. At one point, I felt I shouldn't do it. My mother encouraged me then.

Mother Decision Me Mumbai Leave Big

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

Beginning Think Madness You Serve

In Silicon Valley, where I worked at companies like Facebook and Twitter for the earlier part of this decade, Cuba was generally regarded, when it was regarded at all, as a technological curiosity.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

Curiosity Cuba Decade Technological

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