In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
Copy QuoteAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Copy Quote View & ShareOld age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Copy Quote View & ShareAs I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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