Stavridis Quotes

#1. Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

David Brooks

#2. 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

#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. It's like the girls who want love have a hard time finding it and the girls who don't want love gets it.

Cassie Brode

#9. But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.

Susan Cain

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

James G. Stavridis

#12. For me, fashion begins in New York.

Carolina Herrera

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

James G. Stavridis

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The reason people come to work for GE, they want to be apart of something bigger than themselves, they want to work for a company that makes a difference, a company that is doing great things in the world.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#18. 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

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

James G. Stavridis

#20. There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

Felicity Jones

#21. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell

#22. Writing my books I enjoy. It is the thinking them out that is apt to blot the sunshine from my life.

P.G. Wodehouse

#23. The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad.

Evan Goldberg

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

James G. Stavridis