Across the nation, in sleeping towns and villages, lights flashed on. Quiet streets suddenly filled with sound as radios were turned up. People woke their neighbors to tell them the news, and so many phoned friends and relatives that
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“the pilots on the Carl Vinson rarely talked earnestly about the risk this close to flight time. They joked about it instead. Because if you let yourself get too serious, you will get too scared, and once that devil is out of the bottle, you’re on a runaway horse. Fear is good. Too much fear is not.”
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“The real leverage in developing leaders has to do with the Be component. Give me a soldier who has that part right, and I can teach her to do anything. Give me a soldier who doesn’t, and all the knowledge and skills in the world will not make up for a lack of character.”3”
― Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way
― Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way
“only those who get it get it. A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.”
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“In our experience, good judgment comes from certain habits of mind. Those with good judgment are always curious, always learning. They make it their business to know as much about the world as possible, and don’t confine their curiosity to their own narrow range of expertise, whatever it may be. They are students of human nature. They listen more than they talk. Because they have a lifetime of inquiry and learning, when a crisis erupts, they have a storehouse of knowledge to rely on beyond their own experience. And because they have developed a habit of listening, they can accept advice.”
― Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way
― Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way
“What goes on around you … compares little with what goes on inside you. —Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace
― On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace
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