James Stavridis Quotes

#1. In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

James G. Stavridis

#2. They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

Bob Geldof

#3. Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

James G. Stavridis

#4. I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.

James G. Stavridis

#5. You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

James G. Stavridis

#6. Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

James G. Stavridis

#7. I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

James G. Stavridis

#8. He already knows what I look like," Cath said. "There's no point in being tricky about it now."
"How is doing your hair
and maybe putting on some lip gloss
being tricky?"
"It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

John Trudell

#10. What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.

James G. Stavridis

#11. During the prayers of the day, there was one less "amen".

Phindiwe Nkosi

#12. Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

James G. Stavridis

#13. I don't particularly like explaining being autistic to bewildered people. I might as well say I'm an alien as they probably would understand and accept that more.

Tina J. Richardson

#14. The road to success is a zigzag, first pointing this way and then that. If we start with high intention, then magic and coincidence will guide us there despite our lack of knowledge about what lies ahead.

Susan Collins

#15. Walls don't work ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

James G. Stavridis

#16. Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

John Green

#17. Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.

James G. Stavridis

#18. We seem to have lost our capacity for politeness and for genuine concern about the quality of our interactions in this hectic century.

James G. Stavridis

#19. Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.

James G. Stavridis

#20. I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

James G. Stavridis

#21. None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.

James G. Stavridis

#22. Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

Amartya Sen

#23. Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#24. I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the 'so what' of a story.

James G. Stavridis

#25. When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

James G. Stavridis

#26. I don't think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power - it is succeeding.

James G. Stavridis

#27. It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.

James G. Stavridis

#28. We live the stories we tell; the stories we don't tell live us.

Mark Doty

#29. In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.

James G. Stavridis