One mark of a good officer, ...

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
 Larry Niven

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?
 Daniel Jacobs
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Quotes from the same author

Ethics change with technology.
 Larry Niven
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
 Larry Niven
For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.
 Larry Niven
The majority is always sane.
 Larry Niven