Eric Shinseki Quotes

An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.

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• Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Change

• Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Business
  • Change
  • Name

• How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Army

• The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Life
  • Change
  • Respect

• I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
  • Team
  • Change

• Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Difficult

• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Change
  • Paradox

• I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Find
  • Difficult
  • Attend

• It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Life
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Ethics

• I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Think
  • Write
  • Difficult

• The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Change
  • Government
  • Care

• We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Change
  • Play
  • Hair

• The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • School
  • Business

• There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • May
  • Mother
  • Free

• I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Long
  • Why
  • War

• The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Idea
  • Fact
  • Florida

• An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Change
  • Difficult
  • Army