Jocko Willink Quotes
Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.
Quotes to Explore
-
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
-
A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
-
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
-
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
-
Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
-
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
-
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
-
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
-
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
-
I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
-
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
-
It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
-
In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.
-
How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
-
My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
-
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
-
The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
-
Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
-
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
-
The score never interested me, only the game.
-
I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.
-
Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.
-
I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early.
-
Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.
