Quotes about "Wisdom & Knowledge"

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now. ”

When I was 12 there was a big shift in mindset and I realised that if I want to get something out of it then I need to work hard and focus all my energy just for this sport and that's when I started training and taking things more seriously. I became a lot more self-critical and analysed the driving more and more, and that was when I was 12. ”

It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad. ”

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself. ”

A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country. ”

The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better. ”

Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today. ”

Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information. ”

I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see? ”

Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence. ”