Skolkovo Startup Quotes & Sayings

It is of course true that many modern combat sports are extremely demanding in terms of physical force, skill, and endurance. Indeed many athletes are much fitter and better trained than the vast majority of soldiers. However, all those various kinds of sport are based on artificial rules as to what is and is not permitted. Furthermore, and with the exception of fencing, a highly ritualized form of combat to which we shall return, even the most violent ones do not permit the players to use weapons. In their absence, most of those skills are too specialized to be of much military relevance. — Martin Van Creveld

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general. — Brian Spellman

I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier. — Harrison Salisbury

O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again — Rabindranath Tagore

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air. — Gunter Brus

Disney Resort and World and Compound, a place where your dreams really do come true, if you dream about having people wearing enormous cartoon-animal heads come around to your restaurant table and act whimsical and refuse to go away until you laugh with delight. — Dave Barry

Choose only one master - Nature. — Rembrandt

I poked at the white paper bag. There was nothing left inside. Just like me: a clean crisp outside and nothing at all on the inside. — Jeff Lindsay

If you want to make others happy, show your gratitude. If you want to be happy, express unconditional love in your attitude. — Debasish Mridha

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. — Howard Barker