Neil Sheehan Quotes

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

If we should perish, the ruthlessness of the foe would be only the secondary cause of the disaster. The primary cause would be that the strength of a giant nation was directed by eyes too blind to see all the hazards of the struggle; and the blindness would be induced not by some accident of nature or history but by hatred and vainglory.

America had one idea attached to its brand. We presented ourselves as the world's last superpower. And that was the world's worst branding idea.

If you are a club manager and things are going well, it's a great feeling because you've got the whole city behind you. If you're manager of your country and it's going well - and you've got a whole nation proud of you - I can't describe how that feels.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

What I've noticed is that when people win huge and they have those huge, huge successes, sometimes they forget about the actual acting of it, and sometimes it's hard to come down from their perch.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.

Success has ruined many a man.

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.