Jocko Willink Quotes

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

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• Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Africa
  • Begins

• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.

  

  Cam
  • Time
  • Things
  • Agree

• In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Woman
  • Teacher
  • Doctor

• I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • Life
  • Important
  • Remember

• I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • School
  • Feeling
  • High School

• Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Cancer
  • Price
  • Move

• Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• I actually didn't always want to be an actor.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Want
  • Always
  • Actor

• I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Speed

• Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Look
  • Makeup
  • Aging

• No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Doubt
  • Politics

• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty

• I agree, our trade should be fair and not just free. But the next wave of economic dislocations won't come from overseas. It will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes a lot of good, middle-class jobs obsolete.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Free

• Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• It wasn’t as direct as me saying 'I now make the choice to bring the paparazzi into my life.' I really said, 'I now make the choice to sleep with Jessica Simpson.' That was stronger than my desire to stay out of the paparazzi’s eye.

  

  John Mayer
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Sleep

• Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Education
  • Democracy
  • Greatness

• All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary, but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Believe
  • Why
  • She

• Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Uncomfortable

• Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Important
  • Death

• I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • War
  • Idea
  • Resort

• It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Answers
  • Masters
  • Entity

• Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

  

  Jocko Willink