Jocko Willink Quotes
A lot of times, people have something that they're afraid of. They've got a client that's mad at them. They've got a project that's due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don't let that happen.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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The people at Dylan's Candy Bar, they have to have an inner child and a sense of fun... and love the colors and the textures.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.
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A lot of times, people have something that they're afraid of. They've got a client that's mad at them. They've got a project that's due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don't let that happen.
