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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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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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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I've got a puncher's chance against anybody.
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The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at an unprecedented high both in terms of their level and substance. They are what we call "a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation".
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Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences.
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I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.
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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.
