"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
― Samuel Johnson
Topic(s):
Intelligence
More From Samuel Johnson
- "At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest."
- "So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."
- "We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting."
More In Intelligence
- "As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives."― John O. Brennan
- "To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded."― David M. Shoup
- "The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don’t understand what the real problems are."― Aldrich Ames