...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

...soldierly simplicity of character that has always represented the military at its best. In the higher ranks it is different. The higher a man is placed, the…

The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determini…

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

'If...Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the ma…

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word doctrine, as used in the B…

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.