This is stupid."

"Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and the waste. The pettiness, the silliness. You think in war it must be different. Must be better. With death around the corner, men united against hardship, the cunning of the enemy, people must think harder, faster, be...better. Be heroic.

Only it's just the same. In fact do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it's worse. There aren't many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they'll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work. There's no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

Joe Abercrombie

Tag: war stupidity strategy pride



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No one can take the shot for you.

Lorii Myers

Tag: life success winning strategy life-lessons



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Love spiritually, not strategically.

T.F. Hodge

Tag: love spiritual relationships strategy spirituality quotes strategic



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Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Criss Jami

Tag: strength success passion insanity power persistence peace ambition dreams patience sanity faith calling strategy living risk genius determination priorities perseverance perfection business career commitment hobbies entrepreneur perfectionist



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In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Tag: politics strategy warfare political-science



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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Frank Herbert

Tag: despair strategy leadership depression critical-thinking



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Make foes of bowmen if you must,
Never of penmen.

Thiruvalluvar

Tag: writers virtue strategy



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All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Malcolm X

Tag: strategy business business-advice



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If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Robert Jordan

Tag: war strategy battle adversary adversaries



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Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

Robert Jordan

Tag: strategy



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