Jocko Willink Quotes
When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.
Quotes to Explore
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.
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I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.
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There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.
