It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.
T. E. LawrenceHe feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
T. E. LawrenceThe dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
T. E. LawrenceClub Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.
T. E. LawrenceIn peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.
T. E. Lawrence