As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

Facts are stubborn things.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Many admire, few know.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.