Eric Shinseki Quotes

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

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• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Great
  • Men
  • Age

• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Literature

• Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Music
  • Family
  • Night

• The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Mind
  • Player

• I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • School
  • Interesting
  • Problems

• You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Home
  • Parents

• There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Play
  • Old Age

• There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Model
  • Look

• To be fair, the collection business does have a few good people in it. But it also has those who will lie and make threats.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• People are amazed that I'm Canadian and I don't have this crazy accent.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • People
  • Crazy

• Tragedy makes you grow up.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Up

• Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Up
  • Long

• I believe religion is man-made.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Believe

• When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when youre a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Long
  • Home
  • Experience

• Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Honest
  • Stock
  • Anticipation

• I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Character
  • Me
  • Compassion

• I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Great
  • Young
  • Great Things

• It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Better

• I think in a few days we will be in a position to convey again the situation to the different governments and probably take a decision soon. There is a lot of work to be done.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Decision
  • Position
  • Governments

• Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.

  

  A Boogie wit da Hoodie
  • Successful
  • Position
  • Self-Made

• More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Position
  • Veteran
  • Employees