Aug 31, 2018
Why do you flip tables?
“I don’t. That proclivity was invented by certain chroniclers who take pleasure in caricaturing and mocking me. Such petty violence and displays of temper do very little to solve a problem--more often than not such tantrums hamper productive efforts. Publicly giving in to frustration and anger also undermines one’s reputation as a rational, civilized being. An officer who is forever disrupting operations with uncontrolled emotional outbursts may be obeyed out of fear, but he will never be respected--and nor should he be.”