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“The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.”

Clear Importance Strategy Loyalty Objectives Command

“Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.”

Should Firsts States Interest United United States Clear Should Have Missions Objectives Diplomacy

Author:Mike Thompson

“If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.”

Ifs Made Clear

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.”

Way Wells Long Seems Running Company Creative Clear Evidence Thoughtful Long Runs Doing Good Shareholders Best Company

Author:Norman Lear

“In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.”

Should Trying Helping Clear Enterprise Software

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.”

Spirit Clear Perseverance

Author:Ameen Rihani

“A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.”

May Clear Style Design Defined Consistent

Author:Fred Brooks

“The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.”

Long Universe Clear Assuming Center Of The Universe

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

“The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to his taking office, because of the focus on Iraq, and the U.S. efforts there, that the original war, if you will, in Afghanistan had been neglected, the strategy there was unclear, and that it was not properly resourced.”

Ifs Made War President Effort Clear Focus Office Originals Strategy Iraq Candidates Afghanistan Neglected Unclear

Author:Jay Carney

“The important thing is to be able to understand anyone who has something useful to say. - There is a general moral here. Be very careful and very clear about what you say. But do not be dogmatic about your own language. Be prepared to express any careful thought in the language your audience will understand. And be prepared to learn from someone who talks a language with which you are not familiar.”

Important Able Language Moral Audience Clear Important Things Prepared Careful Familiar Be Prepared Dogmatic

Book:An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

Source: An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

“Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.”

World Problem Clear Adults Prepared

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Law Clear Written Return Enjoyment Rewriting Diminishing Returns

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.”

People Thinking Way Ideas Reading Lost Interest Clear Negative Criticism Autobiography Bombastic

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.”

Thinking Pleasure Clear Privacy Anonymity

Author:Kiki Smith

“It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.”

Clear Fighter Hardship

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not an industrial activity as it is in Hollywood where there are clear production procedures. Because of this we all become snipers making our films any way we can and crossing our fingers to get distribution so people can see them.”

People Way Country Problem Film Clear Industry Activity Tradition Hollywood Fingers Productions Distribution Animation Procedures Crossings Film Industry Snipers

Author:Raul Garcia

“Usama bin Laden feels like Iraq is a part of this War on Terror. He has made it clear that he would like for us to leave before Iraq can defend itself or govern itself and sustain itself, so that he could have a safe haven from which to launch further attacks, a safe haven from which to topple modern governments, a safe haven from which to, you know, be able to get a hold of oil resources.”

Knows Feels Made War Government Able Clear Modern Havens Safe Resources Iraq Terror Oil Made It Bin Laden War On Terror Safe Haven

Author:George W. Bush

“Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.”

People Ifs Persons Clear Policy Murder Disaster Punishment Innocent Capital Punishment Deterrent Death Row Innocent Person

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“I want every scene to feel electric and I try to finish the filming period with a clear trajectory: a beginning, a middle, and hopefully an end.I hate "fly on the wall." It infers that I don't relate to the people we're with and that I don't get affected by events. I like it when people talk to me. I never say things like "Don't look at the camera" - how bossy!”

People Want Feels Trying Looks Ends Hate Clear Middle Events Wall Periods Scene I Hate Cameras Hopefully Relate Affected Electric Talk To Me Trajectory Bossy

Author:Kim Longinotto

“The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.”

“It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.”

Important President Ability Powerful Behinds Watches Clear Focus Speech Weight Climate Climate Change Command Remarkable Rhetoric Bully Pulpit

Author:Josh Fox

“In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.”

Looks Order Challenges Deals Pay Rich Clear Cost Demand Raises Medical Revenue

Author:Bill Gates

“A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.”

Stills Self Father Clear Eating Hungry Satisfied Self Control

Author:John Cassian

“I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.”

Ideas Clear Explaining

Author:Saint Augustine

“We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw conclusions and make judgments based on uncertain and incomplete information, and we conclude, when we are done analyzing the patterns, that out picture is clear and accurate. But is it?”

Done Use Imagination Clear Information Judgment Draws Patterns Conclusion Data Visuals Gaps Accurate Uncertain Incomplete Input Shortcuts Analyzing Incomplete Information

Author:Leonard Mlodinow

“All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph Ellis so brilliantly points out, the name Egypt was employed by the composers of the Old Testament to denote Thebes in Lower Egypt. This was the city and region controlled by the adversaries of the Hyksos. It was considered a separate region, with different rulers, gods, customs, and politics. So, it was not the country of Egypt that Abraham visited, but Thebes within Egypt.”

Made Different Country Names Term Realizing Cities Clear Regions Customs Controlled Composer Rulers Testament Egypt Employed Adversaries Abraham Old Testament

Author:Michael Tsarion

“So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.”

Men Ideas Clear Ordinary

Author:Thomas Adcock

“What does a man seek in this world? A position, or a throne? Man seeks peace of mind and the fear of Almighty God. As long as one knows that there is ajudgement day, he tries to keep his conscience clear and do what he can.”

Knows Men World Trying Mind Long Doe Clear Position This World Conscience Peace Of Mind Almighty Thrones Almighty God Judgement Day

Author:King Hussein I

“...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making... All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind- thought - is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance.”

“As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.”

Writing Powerful Numbers Healing Study Clear Tools

Author:James W. Pennebaker

“The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation”

Path Clear Safe Stagnation Evermore

Author:Frank Herbert

“God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."”

Doe Art Asks Given Knowing Clear Sweet Denied Definite

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.”

Art Clear Art Is

Author:Karl Kraus

“Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.”

Knows Persons Powerful Successful Clear Share Emotional Capacity Storm Midst Great Success Successful Person

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.”

Writing Persons Clear Machines Reports Transition Dichotomy

Author:Dave Barry

“I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.”

People Thinking Way Different Facts Fighting Clear Media Information Listening Conclusion Journalism Consumers Different Ways Reaching Gathering Consuming

Author:Gwen Ifill

“When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.”

“Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up with our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.”

“When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other.”

People Knows World Way Mean Long Made Stories Bigs Pay Attention Clear Too Much Sea Ice Swings Retreat One Direction Long Story Variability

Author:Andrew Revkin

“I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.”

Thinking World Matter Eye Clear Seeing Negative Cynic Seeing The World Open Eyes

Author:Tom Tomorrow

“Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the whole of Islam. In my view, that's a clear corruption of the Islamic tradition.”

Whole Views Clear Elements Tradition Islam Corruption Islamic Highlights

Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl

“A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.”

Men Process Difficult Situation Clear Determination Complicated Justify One Man Democratization

Author:Bidzina Ivanishvili

“Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.”

Should Children Able Pay Clear Debt My Children

Author:Paul Achleitner

“Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.”

Important Reason Would Be Clear Majors Consequence Debt Greece Bankruptcy Euro

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.”

Thinking Want Writing Kind Self Fiction Clear Awareness Involved Self Awareness Thrown Traps Writing Fiction Writing Poetry Tainted Irresponsibility

Author:Ben Lerner

“I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.”

Thinking Trying Looks Hard Done Whole Clear Perspective Proud Smart Weight Look At Me Hey You

Author:David Crosby

“The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.”

Thinking Kind Art Two Important Song Speak Clear Tradition Distinction Touchstones Two Of Us

Author:David Grubbs

“Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.”

Knows Needs Action Clear Greater Policy Responsible Defined Chiefs Target Cia Covert

Book:On the Brink: An Insider's Account of how the White House Compromised American Intelligence

Source: On the Brink: An Insider's Account of how the White House Compromised American Intelligence

“I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.”

Real Clear

Author:R.A. Dickey

“We are posing two very clear questions. The first is: Did the Holocaust actually take place? You answer this question in the affirmative. So, the second question is: Whose fault was it? The answer to that has to be found in Europe and not in Palestine. It is perfectly clear: If the Holocaust took place in Europe, one also has to find the answer to it in Europe.”

Ifs Firsts Two Found Answers Clear Europe Faults Holocaust Palestine Affirmative Posing

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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