A Quote by H. R. McMaster
We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Never confuse activity with accomplishment.
Never confuse activity with action.
Never confuse activity with results.
Never confuse activity with productivity.
You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.
Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
Don’t confuse progress with winning.
Don't ever confuse motion with progress.
It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.
It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
Embarking upon war is always dangerous for national leaders because it makes them more than ever at the mercy of events. When domestic opinion is acutely divided, however, war can be politically lethal for its makers.
The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.
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