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1. Phil Says:
   December 27th, 2007 at 4:20 am

   Thanks for the link.

   As I started through the speech, I was thinking — “gee, this guy is a really good speaker. He really knows how to tell this story.” And then I realized that the reason he’s such a good speaker is because he actually lived the story he’s telling. The story is the source, not the output.

   Maybe you can help me remember a quote from a (20th century?) politician or military leader who said something about the true glory belonging to to the people on the ground who actually lived through the grit and the grind.

2. Doc Says:
   December 27th, 2007 at 4:30 am

   December 27th? Where are you?

3. Chap Says:
   December 27th, 2007 at 5:23 am

   Somewhere involving a handbasket, apparently.

   I dunno; I think I’m on East Coast time right now for some reason.

4. Chap Says:
   December 27th, 2007 at 5:28 am

   Not sure about the quote, although it sounds like a lot of people I’ve heard over the years.

   The funny thing to me is that this guy is living best practices I’ve seen in my own calling–and that the speaker would find commonalities in his speech and speeches done in the military world! Fascinating. For instance, the sub force is famous for inculcating a culture of owning up to failures; the “steal it” idea is found in all really good organizations, and so forth. Wonderful stuff, said differently in my work culture.

5. Doc Says:
   December 27th, 2007 at 6:46 am

   I think Phil is thinking of this, from Theodore Roosevelt:

   “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

   “Citizenship in a Republic,” Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

   Source: http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/quotes.htm

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