Jocko Willink Quotes

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Jocko Willink

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Government
  • Promise

• I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Running

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Torture

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Society
  • Way
  • Better

• I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Year

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Done

• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• I've been on sets my whole life.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Life
  • Been
  • Sets

• If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Team

• You are not a problem that needs solving.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Problem
  • Needs

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Life
  • Love
  • Radio

• Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Responsibility

• Leadership is a highly personal, individual matter. Each leader must establish his own approach based on an internal compass using a method geared to his personality, his capabilities but always oriented towards accomplishing the mission while knowing and taking care of his men.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• She's learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I'm most proud that she's improved her sportsmanship, her demeanor on the field. She's still working on leadership and that's improving.

  

  Elaine Jones
  • Game
  • Leadership
  • Learned

• I might live in the woods, but I am a lazy actor.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Live
  • Lazy

• The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Freedom
  • Leadership
  • Discipline