Dave Leblanc

“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.”
― Laurence Gonzales, 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”
― U.S. Department of the Army, 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.”
― Laurence Gonzales, 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.”
― U.S. Department of the Army, Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way