Yet he had failed to grasp another military principle best expressed by General Dwight D.
The boy was not humiliated, but it was easy to see that he felt he had failed.
Time and time again he thought he had it, only to find that he had failed again.
The hazard avoidance manoeuvre was the only part of the test he had failed, Mr Woolley said.
It said he had failed "to carry out duties of primary importance", but it did not elaborate.
Asked whether he had failed to perform his duties properly, he said "clearly it was not good enough".
In 1996 he pulled the plug on the Dutch aircraft-maker, Fokker, which he had failed to turn around.
Sweden acted after he had failed to show up for the start of his one-year jail term for copyright violations.
However, talks broke down about a new contract, with the English Championship club saying he had failed to prove his fitness.
On 9 March 2011, Dr Peperkamp's name was removed from the medical register because he had failed to pay his fees.
Nadal raced through a love service game and immediately set about doing what he had failed to manage in the previous game.
But a month after getting the movie Searchlight sued Gilbert saying he had failed to pay his share of the production budget.
But on Monday, a court in Sochi said Mr Lebedev's registration was invalid because he had failed to submit a financial document.
It was the fourth time he had failed to finish a match and, fairly or unfairly, that tag can follow a player around.
In tax court, Palmer did not deny that he had received the unreported income or that he had failed to file a tax return.
Prosecutors earlier told the court that he had failed to stop his brother even though the pair had worked together for more than 40 years.
In fact, on the same day that Witt told Merill Lynch that he had passed the Series 7, the firm received an email notice that he had failed.
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After February 3rd, when Daschle withdrew his nomination, because he had failed to pay some taxes, Orszag became perhaps the dominant voice on health care within the White House.
The home support, therefore, would not have been too pleased to hear that he had failed to shake off a back injury and Yves Ma-Kalambay would be back between the sticks.
John's landlord, Coleraine solicitor Fergus McIntosh, appeared in court last year as he had failed to comply with a notice of unfitness on the property, served by Coleraine Borough Council in February 2011.
Some newspaper reports quoted unnamed Tory sources as saying Mr Davis had lost favour because he had failed to drive through reforms to ensure the party had greater numbers of women and ethnic minority candidates.
Chairman Dr Bertie Ellis said the BPS was concerned that he had failed to maintain control of his relationship with his patient and had conducted the session in a venue where privacy and confidentiality would be compromised.
"He promised a lot, delivered nothing, " Kantor told The Associated Press of his meetings with Orban, adding that he would ask the prime minister why he had failed to use his dominance in the legislature to ban Jobbik.
The panel concluded Mr Hood had failed to keep accurate records of all safeguarding incidents, he had failed to raise concerns, he did not support staff in raising concerns and ultimately did not meet his responsibilities as a head teacher.
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His resignation seemed inevitable once it emerged last week that he had failed to inform fellow SEC commissioners that Mr Webster had been chairman of the audit committee of a publicly listed company that was being sued by its investors.
The try made up for an earlier disallowed effort by Prescott, who miraculously regathered a grubber kick from scrum-half Bobbie Goulding only for the video referee to rule he had failed to gain control of the ball over the line.
The policy director for the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence division was briefly removed from his job in March when the Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered he had failed to disclose his association with Abdurahman Alamoudi, a jailed American Muslim leader.
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Professor David Sharpe, a consultant plastic surgeon based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, said he had failed to persuade medical insurance companies to pay for breast reduction surgery even in cases where it was obvious that the patient required the operation on medical grounds.
"Mr Rana's claim was turned down by the UK Border Agency and then by an appeal court where a judge found that elements of his case were inconsistent and that he had failed to show that he faces persecution in Pakistan, " said the spokesman.
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