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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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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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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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
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You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.
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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
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There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
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I like how powerful fashion makes me feel. I live for that grungy-prissy juxtaposition that Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Drew Barrymore wore in the '90s.
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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.
