William R. Looney III Quotes
In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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Reliability is the precondition for trust.
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While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.
