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
Always try the problem that matters most to you.
Andrew Wiles
One word from you shall silence me forever.
Jane Austen
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
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
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
The experiences that technology provides is very, very important, rather than just the backroom aspects of running things. It's just as important to focus on the consumer interface and how we're experiencing things.
Gary Shapiro
Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine.
Napoleon Hill
If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
William H. McRaven
I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
Michelle Williams
Destiny's Child
“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