Jocko Willink Quotes
Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning - like at 4:30 in the morning - you're going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.
Quotes to Explore
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
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The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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I told my kids, 'It doesn't matter if this person or that person in the family isn't perfect; this is what you've got. We have to work with that, and if you can't work with that, then you're just jumping into someone else's family, and there's always going to be something missing if you don't work that out.'
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I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.
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Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning - like at 4:30 in the morning - you're going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.
