“Hire a lesser-qualified, but motivated person over a highly-skilled, non-motivated person...EVERY.DAY.”
“Where regular forces provide martial muscle, the special forces are surgical and skilled, trained to be “the most potent weapons one can use”: Attacking the means of production and communication—disabling factories that made the machines that fought the war, annihilating the ability to communicate troop movements over distances—was the most advanced thinking in military planning.”
Source: D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
“This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,” said Gauck.”
Source: The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
“Every skilled baker was first an amateur. - Chris Geiger”
“I'm good at what I do.'
'And what is that?' Vikter challenged.
'Killing.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Just as plants need water to grow, skills need practice to thrive.”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“The same is true for your life—the grind is just a part of your progress toward success and a better future. The grind is not the suck. Instead, it is your escape from your suck.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“Having an affair with your good friend's wife while he's in an institution and your wife is in a hospital ranks somewhere between Benedict Arnold and the guy who invented Girls Gone Wild on the spectrum of Total Dickheads in American History.”
Source: How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
“If Peggy's personal star was on the rise, Arnold's was in freefall as their respective ships headed into the high seas.”
Source: Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
“To soften relations between the two groups and meet Philadelphia's fashionable young beauties, Arnold hosted a ball at the... City Tavern with a guest list that included Tories and neutralists, as well as patriots. Inevitably the 'disaffected' emerged triumphant, their beaded gowns gleaming in the candlelight, their two-feet--high hairdos towering over the caps of patriot woman in their crude clothes.”
Source: Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married