"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled……" — Colin Powell
"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant."
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190 Quotes by Colin Powell
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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power…
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things…
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Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of…
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or…
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as…
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now…
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it…
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More Details Quotes
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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
— Giorgio Armani
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I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize…
— Andrea Arnold
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget…
— Banksy
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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in…
— Drew Barrymore
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
— Victoria Beckham
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a…
— Annie Besant
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
— Manolo Blahnik
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color…
— Benjamin Britten
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