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.
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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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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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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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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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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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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what's on the show.
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I love England and I love cricket.
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While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.
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The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twilight zone. Either you're going into darkness and the sun is dropping down, or you're coming out of the darkness and the sun is coming up. At the same time, you've got new drivers coming in and feeling their way around the circuit.
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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.
