Benjamin Wittes Quotes

Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

Benjamin Wittes

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• I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Attention
  • Amazing
  • Body

• I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Vaalu

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Sky
  • Flying
  • Airplane

• I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Why
  • She

• The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Health
  • Air
  • Human

• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Done
  • Art
  • Doing

• We are awaiting the police assessment of the video.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Police
  • Video
  • Assessment

• The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• All criticism is a form of autobiography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Criticism
  • Form
  • Autobiography

• The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Leadership
  • Conscious

• Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Money
  • Show
  • Kiss

• If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Life
  • Complete
  • Reluctant

• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Flower

• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Life
  • Way
  • Analysis

• It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Death
  • Mystery
  • Birth

• Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Discrimination
  • Analysis