Quotes by James Stockdale - Page 1

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
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Character
Entitlement
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Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
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Gains
Giving
Leader
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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
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Character
Issues
Permanent
Thinking
Transient
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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
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History
Department
Physics
Rhyming
Cal
Tech
Shout
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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
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Fighter
Officers
Commanding
Officer
Squadron
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It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.
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Disaster
Hero
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Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
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Dog
Dying
Mean
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I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
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Politics
Conversation
Single Life
Life Politics My Life
Perot
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The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.
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Happens
World
Worst
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The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
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Education
Success
Failure
Achievement
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Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.
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First Time
October
Time Wife Day
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The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation
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Estimation
Guy
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The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.
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Estimation
Holds
Stock
Stock Market
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And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
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Customs
Traditions
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So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.
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Reprisal
First Thing
The First Thing
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A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
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Education
Curiosity
Fascination
Ideas
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Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
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Helpless
Mean Girls
Paper
Papers
Throwback
Yeah
Schoolboy
Seemed
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I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
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Boss
Mean
Should Have
Demanded
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I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.
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Men
Done
Grown Man
Should Have
Grown
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He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
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Leadership
Air
Circumstances
Vietnam
Bomb
Dropped
Experienced
Led
North
North Vietnam
Novice
Strike
Tight
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Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
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Journey
Issues
Midst
Polished
Talking
By The Time
Tour
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Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.
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Commitment
Doe
Mean
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But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.
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Lows
Real Life
Batch
Experiences
Highs
Life Experiences
Picking
Practical
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I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
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Blood
Giving
Pain
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I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
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Bending
Blood
Circulation
Fifteen
Pain
Submission
Double
Ropes
Shutting
Tortured
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We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.
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East
German
Generalize
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Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots
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Kings
Firsts
President
Telephones
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Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.
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Ballots
Becoming
Committed
Larry
March
President
Asked
Candidate
First Of All
Perot
Telephone
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And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
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Asia
Doubt
White House
Bomb
There And Then
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On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.
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Air
Bombs
December
Minutes
Railroads
Tactical
Thirty
Yards
Eighteenth
Hundreds
Railroad
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This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.
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Big Deal
Character
Firm
Ideas
Issues
Mutual
Proven
Convictions
Friend
Determining
Electoral
Factor
Strongly
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They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
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Forty
Miles
Practice
Thirty
Bay
Gulf
Heading
Hurry
Standard
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