James G. Stavridis Quotes
You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
Quotes to Explore
-
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
-
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
-
I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
-
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
-
I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
-
Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
-
The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
-
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
-
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
-
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
-
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
-
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
-
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
-
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
-
I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
-
I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
-
I like excess. And giant M&M's.
-
I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
-
I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.
-
I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it.
-
I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.
-
I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.
-
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
-
You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
