Jocko Willink Quotes

I'm not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I'll accept that. But I'm not a complete psychopath.

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• Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Question

• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Human
  • Understand
  • See

• The underdog winning is the romantic position.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Winning
  • Romantic
  • Underdog

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Good
  • Story
  • Elements

• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Film

• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Partner

• I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Hate
  • Sound

• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Wife
  • Neighbor
  • Others

• Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Home
  • Design

• Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Promises

• You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Respect
  • Play
  • Talk

• Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Presentation

• Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Unique

• What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Child
  • Professional
  • Tantrums

• Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Age
  • Ability
  • Skills

• Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Relationship

• I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Migration
  • Front Door
  • Aistralia

• Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Victory
  • Endurance
  • Disciplines

• I'm not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I'll accept that. But I'm not a complete psychopath.

  

  Jocko Willink