Jocko Willink Quotes

Leadership is hard. It's a skill. It's a technique.

Jocko Willink

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• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Happens

• The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Actions
  • Active

• I love Bridget Fonda.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fonda

• I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Masterpiece

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• 'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Up
  • Together
  • Perfect

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Spiritual
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Best
  • Theatre
  • Same

• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Business
  • Taken

• When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Never
  • Down
  • Charity

• If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Time
  • Business
  • Game

• Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Challenge
  • Patience

• Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.

  

  Dabo Swinney
  • Time
  • Study
  • Coaching

• Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Great
  • Vision

• Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Leadership

• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Change
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• Leadership is hard. It's a skill. It's a technique.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Leadership