Arleigh Burke Quotes

#1. On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]

Peter O'Donnell

#2. The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ... but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

Wendell Berry

#3. If I could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. The problem is that if you do make that kind of money doing standup, it's not in clubs, it's in big auditoriums and large venues, and I really think something is lost when you do standup for a big crowd.

Joe Rogan

#4. Success can not be administrated.

Arleigh Burke

#5. But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

E. M. Forster

#6. Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Arleigh Burke

#7. The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.

Arleigh Burke

#8. This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

Arleigh Burke

#9. The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.

Arleigh Burke

#10. There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

Arleigh Burke

#11. Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

Arleigh Burke

#12. Sociopaths spend their lives studying people, because we have to imitate things we don't understand, or feel, to blend in. It makes us some of the most observant people on the planet.

Laurell K. Hamilton