“The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).” ThinkingPlayCausesResultsTeachMilitaryCarGunShotsCome UpCarefulDespiteShootingOfficersEquipmentCurvesFamiliarityViolinRiflesContinuationLearning CurveMarksmanship Author:Daryl Davis
“I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.” KnowsSelfSometimesCertainPrinciplesTeachMilitaryMarineMarine CorpsSelf SufficiencySufficiencyBasic PrinciplesMilitary Life Author:Raymond Kelly
“Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.” MenGivingMindEnergyTeachStudyMilitaryExampleAffairRelax Author:Michel de Montaigne
“The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.” WarEnoughUseCausesEasyPresidentInterestTeachMilitaryLessonsWeaponsStrikesBarackCivil WarTargetRegimesSyriaDiscouragedPresident Barack ObamaAssadBe EncouragedRegime Change Author:Rand Paul
“The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.” KnowsShouldYearsTeachMilitaryStudentsDecidedAgreeMalesPermitSouthernPassagesConventionsPastorBaptistsMilitary ServiceChaplainsSouthern BaptistDeacons Author:Jimmy Carter
“Computers get better, faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996. But our brains are wired for a linear world. As a result, exponential trends take us by surprise. I used to teach my students that there are some things, you know, computers just aren't good at like driving a car through traffic.” WorldTodayPowerfulBrainTeachMilitaryCarStudentsComputerSurpriseDrivingGet Better Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.” ThinkingMenMindMistakeTeachWorstMilitaryTrainingConsequenceEmbarrassmentAstronautFireman Author:David Saint-Jacques
“Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.” WayFatherBornTeachChildhoodMilitaryAgreementSovietRegimesDeprivedAcademyHomeland Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” BelieveWarGovernmentPeaceMoneyLibertyTeachMilitaryAnti WarAntiwarAggressionPeace WarGreat WarVeterans DayOur VeteransHonoring VeteransHonoring Our VeteransGreat Veterans DayThank A VeteranGovernment And SocietyThank You VeteranVeterans Day InspirationalCost Of WarWar VeteranVeteran AppreciationFunny Veterans DayVeterans Day AppreciationGovernment And PoliticsUs VeteransAnti GovernmentAnti ConservativeGovernment Welfare Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan