John O. Brennan Quotes

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

John O. Brennan

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Directors
  • Europe

• I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Know
  • Never
  • Gun

• You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Way
  • Where

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Great
  • Believe
  • High

• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Thought
  • Gay
  • Now

• I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • My Own

• I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • High
  • Want

• I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

  

  Mack McLarty
  • Strong
  • Bipartisanship

• I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Dresses

• I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the bus after a show with my husband Jimi. As much as he will deny it, he loves the show as much as I do.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Husband

• Nell: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.Nagg: Oh?Nell: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • Funny
  • Beginning

• The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Explore

• I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.

  

  Ann Bancroft

• I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

  

  Fairfield Porter
  • Space
  • Air

• How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

  

  John O. Brennan