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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Be interesting, be enthusiastic… and don’t talk too much.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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We tend to get what we expect.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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It’s always too early to quit.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Someone once asked, ‘What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?’ The answer is, ‘I have a conscience and he doesn’t.’

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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When the Normandy Invasion was planned, a very specific strategic objective was given, and that strategic objective was the basis upon which the plan for the Normandy Invasion was derived.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Unfortunately, if you’ve ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you’re out there, you’re in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Leader Norman Vincent Peale
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Hey, I’m not a politician. I’m a ham. I love to give speeches.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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War’s a profanity because, let’s face it, you’ve got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Carpet bombing tends to portray something that’s totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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As young West Point cadets, our motto was ‘duty, honor, country.’ But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto’s fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for ‘duty, honor, and their country.’

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I’ve got to tell you what, the soldier doesn’t fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That’s not what military leadership is all about.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it’s a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Generals aren’t in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President’s decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It’s interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish’s can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It’s the being there that’s important.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Moving into an unoccupied village when there’s no opposition, I don’t call that a military victory.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I’ve met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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There’s no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I am an environmentalist, but I’m not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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What people don’t understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There’s no other nation in the world where that happens. And it’s very much a part of our heritage.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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They say the good Lord doesn’t charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we’ve had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw ’em in the garbage can.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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The fun of fishing is catching ’em, not killing ’em.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army, and I’m very proud of that. But I’ve always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can’t do anything about it… Then you understand the horror of war.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I’ve managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, ‘Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.’

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I can’t even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general… When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can’t even see myself standing in their shadow.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I’m not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That’s a huge question, to my mind.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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You can’t help but… with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, ‘Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn’t be facing what we are facing today.’

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I like to say I’m not a hero.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I’ve ruined, anyone whom I’ve driven out of the service, anyone I’ve fired from a job.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Good generalship is the realisation that you’ve got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.

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First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that’s a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who’s just as bad or worse than he is.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Particularly when you’re dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it’s necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes with a two by four to get its attention.

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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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It’s nice to feel that you have a purpose.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I’m very proud of that. But I’ve always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.

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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Good generalship is a realization that… you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.

army general Norman Schwarzkopf
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Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit – we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

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