“If at first you don’t succeed; avoid assignments that involve parachuting or bomb disposal.” Unknown
Linking Don’t & Avoid with Success & Assignments
Defeated versus Surprised
“To be defeated is pardonable; to be surprised – never!” Napoleon Bonaparte (Maxims of War, 1831)
Experience versus Enthusiasm
“When you must choose between experience and enthusiasm, choose enthusiasm.” Unknown Of course, one has to be careful not to allured by enthusiasm alone.
Readiness vs Vigilance…
“The price of readiness is eternal vigilance.” Unknown “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” (Deis, 2015). Reference Deis, R. (2015) This Day in Quotes: Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/01/eternal-vigilance-is-price-of-liberty.html. [Accessed: 09 October, 2016].
Built or Revealed…
“Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.” Has been attributed to both: Vincent Thomas “Vince” Lombardi (1913 to 1970) was an American football player, coach, and executive in the National Football League. James Lane Allen (1849 to 1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often… Read More
Afraid versus Fearful
“To the man who is afraid, everything rustles!” Sophocles (circa 495-406 BC)
The Suit Does Not Make the Man…
“Let no man be so rash as to suppose that, in donning a general’s uniform, he is forthwith competent to perform a general’s functions; as reasonably might he assume that in putting on the robes of a judge he was ready to decide any point of law. . .” Dennis Hart Mahan, 1864 (in Dupuy,… Read More
Boot Camp & Military Fitness Institute 