CANDID AND TO THE POINT / काम की बात
Here is the opportunity knocking at the door
For the youth of the country
Under ten categories
By WHITE CANVAS
and
by BRAINFEED
Grand Finale on 05 Sep 20
Good Luck to all the participants
“Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.”
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say “when”.
I always advise people never to give advice.
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn’t.
And she has got brains enough for two, which is exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
When I see lovers’ names carved on trees, I don’t think it’s sweet. I only wonder how many people bring a knife on a date .
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.
Every day you seem to know less and less about more and more.
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1
Know and use all the capabilities in your airplane. If you don’t, sooner or later, some guy who does use them all will kick your ass.
Dave “Preacher” Pace
Quoted in Robert L . Shaw, Fighter Combat
2
As one veteran Israeli pilot said after the June 1982 air campaign over Lebanon in response to American questions about how much doctrine the Israeli Air Force had written down, “Yes, we have books. But they are very thin.”
Barry D. Watts and James 0. Hale
Air University Review, 1984
3
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Sir Winston Churchill
4
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.
Gen H. H. “Hap” Arnold
5
War is not an affair of chance. A great deal of knowledge, study, and meditation is necessary to conduct it well.
Frederick the Great
6
A wise man learns from his experience; a wiser man learns from the experience of others.
Confucius
7
Every soldier generally thinks only as far as the radius of action of his branch of the service and only as quickly as he can move with his weapons.
Luftwaffe general Karl Koller
8
Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.
Hap Arnold
9
The science of war (knowledge).
The art of war (application of knowledge).
Wallace P. Franz and Harry G. Summers
Art of War Colloquium, textbook Army War College
10
Space in which to maneuver in the air, unlike fighting on land or sea, is practically unlimited.
Group Captain J. E “Johnnie” Johnson
11
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoléon
12
Tactics are concerned with doing the job “right,” higher levels of strategy are concerned with doing the “right” job.
Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow
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