One Green Beret Quotes

“It’s interesting how the choices we make in life can suddenly accumulate at singular events that surprise and define us.”
― Mark Giaconia, One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011

“In his eyes, everyone was assumed to be potentially smart until they proved themselves otherwise.”
― Mark Giaconia, One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011

“I was stunned when I came to the realization that I didn’t know anything about anything, and that I never actually knew anything that I thought I had.”
― Mark Giaconia, One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011

“So I made it my other mission in life to figure out how to teach this process in a simple way. The processes had many intricacies, and formulating a method of instruction for them forced me to become even more of an expert on the subject.”
― Mark Giaconia, One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011

“I was always trying to do something interesting, and I think most of them appreciated my insane, almost goofy, level of humility and drive; I knew absolutely nothing and admitted it every chance I got.”
― Mark Giaconia, One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011