I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.
No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.
The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first. ""What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need. "I found this to be true.
Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.
I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.
Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different.
Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.
The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.