Mark Smith Quotes on Opportunity (2 Quotes)

We're going so into computers and technology today that I think we're losing the human touch on a lot of things. And as far as I'm concerned, police work still requires the human touch. You still have to be one-on-one with people. I'm going to continue to try to maintain our one-on-one, person-to-person thing with our dispatcher. If you call our police department 24 hours a day, you still get a human being. I'm a firm believer that every dark cloud has a silver lining, even if you just learn a little bit along the way from it. And if that brings morale up, then I'm glad it did. I'm sure glad I was given the opportunity.

I had a really good offer to go back over there. I feel bad about the situation, but I've got to go for myself. It's great being over in Europe. Anybody who gets the opportunity to do it should jump at it.