Edwin Lefevre Quotes

My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But if I cannot advance I do not move at all. I do not mean by this that a man should not limit his losses when he is wrong. He should. But that should not breed indecision.

Edwin Lefevre

• Advance
• Losses
• Retreat
• Indecision

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• I don't care about losses anymore.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Care
  • Anymore
  • Losses

• Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Men
  • Enemy
  • Moment

• I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Life
  • Plan
  • Indecision

• When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Art
  • Community
  • Advance

• We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

  

  Cherrie Moraga
  • Future
  • Beginning
  • Transformation

• The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

  

  David Storey
  • Knowledge
  • Confidence
  • Ignorance

• My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

  

  Mathew Brady
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Aim

• The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Advance
  • Purposes
  • Almighty

• Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

  

  Plato
  • Heart
  • Advance
  • Degree

• Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Political
  • Military
  • Advantage

• To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Work
  • Retreat
  • Heaven's Way

• While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very modest success compared to the advance of the Mohammedan faith in particular- right here in Europe they lose millions and millions of inward adherents who either are alien to all religious life or simply go their own ways. The consequences, particularly from a moral point of view, are not favorable.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Faith
  • Consequences
  • Advance

• The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Possibility
  • Infinite
  • Optimist

• Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Magic
  • Genius
  • Indecision

• If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wish
  • Advance
  • Directions

• We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Death
  • Connection
  • Imagine

• If we have not struggled as hard as we can at our strongest how will we sense the shape of our losses or know what sustains us longest or name what change costs us, saying how strange it is that one sector of the self can step in for another in trouble, how loss activates a latent double, how we can feed as upon nectar upon need?

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Struggle
  • Sense
  • Losses

• The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Fall

• The highest God and the innermost God is one God.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • God

• Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Past
  • Words
  • Distant

• Theater schools teach you how to act, but they don't teach you anything about the business, so I got to New York, had no idea what the hell I was doing, and just did anything I could for a really long time.

  

  Erin Maya Darke
  • Business
  • Teach
  • Theater

• My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But if I cannot advance I do not move at all. I do not mean by this that a man should not limit his losses when he is wrong. He should. But that should not breed indecision.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Advance
  • Losses
  • Retreat