Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes

“The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.”

Alfred Thayer Mahan

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• I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Stills
  • Village
  • Mets

• Always try the problem that matters most to you.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Matter

• One word from you shall silence me forever.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Forever
  • Silence

• I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Game
  • Lose
  • Striving

• No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Character
  • Moral

• Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Black
  • Ambition
  • Chinese

• He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Escape

• Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Past

• I like to run a lot. I like to chase the ball.

  

  Jose Reyes
  • Run
  • Ball
  • Chase

• I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.

  

  Burna Boy
  • Believe
  • Everything
  • Planning

• Life is not to live merely, but to live well.

  

  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
  • Life is
  • Well

• I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Water
  • Fingers
  • Ships

• I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Happy
  • Comedy

• The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Belief
  • Logic
  • Mathematics

• “The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.”

  

  Alfred Thayer Mahan
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  • Fleet