Christopher Voss Quotes

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

Christopher Voss

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• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Great
  • Different
  • Society

• I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Lost
  • Kind

• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Liberty

• I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Changed
  • Little
  • Michael

• We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Start

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Like

• I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • First
  • Poem

• I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Past
  • Peace
  • Dad

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Life
  • Children
  • Parents

• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Mission
  • Linda

• If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Know

• When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • School
  • Kids
  • Education

• Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Organization
  • Intellect
  • Underestimate

• I didn't grow up watching movies and thinking, 'Oh, I wanna be in those!'

  

  Jane Levy
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Communication