Du Picq Quotes

We've searched our database for all the quotes and captions related to Du Picq. Here they are! All 5 of them:

One officer’s response to du Picq stated quite frankly that “a good many soldiers fired into the air at long distances,” while another observed that “a certain number of our soldiers fired almost in the air, without aiming, seeming to want to stun themselves, to become drunk on rifle fire during this gripping crisis.
Dave Grossman (On Killing)
Primele încercări de predare a unei limbi, mă refer la engleză, cimpanzeilor datează abia din secolul XX. Toate au dat greş, inclusiv una dintre cele mai cunoscute, făcută pe la sfârşitul anilor '40 de o familie de cercetători americani, Hayes, care au crescut un cimpanzeu, pe Vicky, ca pe copilul lor. Degeaba. După luni şi luni de învăţare, Vicky bolborosea vag patru cuvinte: tata, mama, pahar, sus. «Tată, mamă, să ridicăm un pahar». Sigur, fraza e foarte utilă la aniversări, dar cam atât.
Pascal Picq (La plus belle histoire du langage)
those with no eyes to read readily are doomed
Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant Du Picq
Those with no eyes to read readily are doomed to the worst errors
Ardant du Charles-Jean-Jacques-Jos Picq
Il faut que le chef ait confiance absolue dans son droit de commander, ait l'habitude de commander, l'orgueil du commandement.
Ardant du Picq