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

• Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Character
  • History
  • Friend

• You anchor me without holding me down. You frighten me without threatening my future. You're unflinchingly devoted. I love you.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Future
  • Devoted
  • Frighten

• He saw it all summed up in the blind marching of that nameless unit. A vision of gaunt shapes, sharp shiny steel, dim lamps flaring in the rain. The war machine was rolling.

  

  John Jakes
  • Up
  • War
  • Vision

• When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Sometimes
  • Should
  • Circumstances

• If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Sex

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

  

  Jocko Willink