Jocko Willink Quotes

When things are going bad, there's going to be some good that's going to come from it.

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• If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

  

  Earl Weaver
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  • Bad
  • Want

• I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.

  

  Sam Worthington
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  • Job
  • Think

• There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
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  • Heart

• It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Good
  • You
  • Week

• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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  • Winners

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
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  • America

• I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

  

  Patrick Rafter
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• Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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  • Work
  • Job

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
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  • Know
  • Qualities

• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  

  Jackie Cooper
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  • Work
  • Yourself

• You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

  

  Vince Gill
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• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
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• My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn't safe for me to eat or consume, it's probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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  • Nature

• Everybody takes at least 20, so even if you see a good selfie, it probably wasn't the first one. So my tip is to just not take it too seriously and have fun.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

  

  Magic Johnson
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  • Laugh
  • Emotions

• The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.

  

  David Ignatius
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  • Tolerance

• We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

  

  John Buford
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  • Enemy

• Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Nature
  • Diversity

• This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. The high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term exponential negative implications for our economy.

  

  Mallory Factor
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• When things are going bad, there's going to be some good that's going to come from it.

  

  Jocko Willink
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