Shelby Foote Quotes

I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Everything is a learning experience.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I'm young and I have a lot of experience and I learn quickly.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

I always try and take something from each job.

When [Ulysses S.] Grant once gets possession of a place he holds on to it as if he had inherited it.

We don’t need corporate generals. We need warrior generals…. Many of our military leaders are like car designers who have never driven a car….they go along to get along.

My strength is my unpredictablity. I can wrestle, I can strike, I can move fast, and I do a good job of covering up. And because of my experience, I'm able to put myself in good positions in the ring. The guys I fight, they have to be ready for anything.

But you grow more knowledgeable during the time you play in the Premier League. Every new manager, new chapter, has been a learning curve.

I feel that each opportunity has been a learning experience for me and will help me grow and be a better coach here in L.A.

I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

I know Donald Trump as a very adaptive person. In my nearly three and a half decades of being in the military, I've had maybe one, maybe two guys that I've worked for that were that adaptive in combat. He adapts to the great challenges, with his own sort of street smarts and his instincts.

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.