“Do make it clear that generalship, at least in my case, came not by instinct, unsought, but by understanding, hard study and brain concentration. Had it come easy to me I should not have done it as well.”

T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia) as quoted in Lawrence of Arabia by B.H.L. Hart.

Reference

Hale, L. (2013) A Short Study of T.E. Lawrence. Available from World Wide Web: https://requiemdminor.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/a-short-study-of-t-e-lawrence/. [Accessed: 14 August, 2016].