Jocko Willink Quotes

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you're failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

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• Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Hard
  • Weg

• I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Money
  • Care

• Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Work
  • Religious
  • Critical

• See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Together
  • Humanity
  • Fight

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Understand
  • Find

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Different
  • Country

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.

  

  Samina Baig
  • People
  • Want
  • Wish

• Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Health
  • Care
  • Group

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Great
  • Women
  • She

• I'm a little bit of a control freak.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Control
  • Little
  • Freak

• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Thanks
  • Wolf

• When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Want
  • You
  • Numbers

• In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Home

• I try not to intellectualise what I do.

  

  Phoebe Philo

• The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Game
  • Team
  • Famous

• I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Know
  • Boundaries

• One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Live
  • Man

• If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you're failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Team