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Inflexibility—it was the worst human failing: you could learn to check impetuosity, you could overcome fear through confidence and laziness through discipline, but rigidity of mind allowed for no antidote. It carried the seeds of its own destruction.
…Victory is a matter of opportunities clearly seen and swiftly exploited.”
“Opportunity once forsaken is opportunity lost forever.
Experience was valuable only if one imbued it with meaning, drew from it purposeful conclusions.
a man has to do what he can think well of himself for doing, or he’s nothing.
“There are times when nothing is as important as loyalty.”
He was so sure of himself: so sure! He knew what he knew—and he understood so little.
The essence of leadership was an unerring ability to winnow the essential from the trivial or extraneous. Fine. But it wasn’t that simple.
Massengale’s sin—there was none greater—was that he had decided neither grace nor nobility nor love existed in this world.