Jocko Willink Quotes
I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be like, 'Yo you wanna do this?,' I'd be all for it. I would love that, actually.
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I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.
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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
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When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want to know if you are walking the talk. They will be watching your every move and you need to be one in the same... every minute of every day.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.
