Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.
Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.
It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc. , would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which. . . . pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.
When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.
Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.
If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.