Jocko Willink Quotes

If I'm going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can't just order you to do it.

Jocko Willink

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• While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • People
  • May
  • American

• The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Education
  • Connection
  • Healthy

• All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Never
  • Camera

• I thought I'd have the baby, and get super fit and strong straight away.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Strong
  • Thought
  • Baby

• Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Travel

• You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Men
  • Children

• If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Space
  • Office

• Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Up
  • Work
  • Doing

• I had worked in Hindi films like 'Jaago,' 'Abra Ka Dabra,' 'Koi Mil Gaya,' but 'Desamuduru' was a different experience.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Like

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Time
  • Women
  • Success

• New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.

  

  Joel Salatin

• The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

  

  Avery Brundage
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

  

  Diplo
  • World
  • Live

• Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Dance

• I've never been a show horse or particularly charismatic. I'm just the guy who gets up and works hard every day.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Horse

• We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.

  

  Brian Greene

• In Hawaii, if you're invited to dinner, it's assumed that the children are invited as well. On the islands, no one treats children like they're not part of the conversation. People talk to children as people and include them in adventures and conversations.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • Children
  • Adventure

• All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Rich

• I had a beard way before it was fashionable.

  

  Chris Stapleton

• I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

  

  Ben Whishaw

• If I'm going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can't just order you to do it.

  

  Jocko Willink