Jocko Willink Quotes

Being a kid's not easy. You're transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you're out in the world.

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• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinions

• For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Business
  • Change

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dad

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Creative

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Good
  • Home
  • Taken

• A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • May
  • Die
  • Oppression

• What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

  

  Dale Dougherty
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Computers

• Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Death
  • Change

• I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Leaving
  • Kid
  • Priorities

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Look

• There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • People
  • Music
  • Lives

• I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

  

  Peter Bichsel
  • World

• I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Success
  • Small
  • New

• I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Done
  • Want
  • Like

• The hardest thing writers have to do is figure out for themselves who they are. What should they be writing about? What stories should they be telling? What does writing mean to them? I didn't know the answers to those questions for a long, long time.

  

  Blake Crouch
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Being a kid's not easy. You're transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you're out in the world.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • World