Jocko Willink Quotes

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you're able to do it.

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• It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Nice
  • Year
  • Achievement

• I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Future
  • Universe
  • Curiosity

• With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Quality
  • Will

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Understand
  • Interest
  • Public

• When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Night
  • Day
  • Challenge

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • New
  • Involved

• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Old
  • Grow

• During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Like

• It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Dying

• We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Goal
  • Need
  • Position

• I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Want
  • Identity
  • Driving

• I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Book
  • Autograph
  • Non-Reader

• I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Help
  • Feeling

• 'How, in this day and age, can any one of you claim to be better than your fellow human beings?''Because we are,' said Marilyn Deighton-True with a shrug. 'Face reality, Giles, or it will face you. You can spout all the socialiste nouveau crap you like, but it simply doesn’t apply to a meritocracy.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • True
  • Age
  • Reality

• I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • True
  • Revolution
  • Countries

• Uber, like Google, is taking a highly disorganized business - in its case, private transportation such as taxicabs and private limousines - and ordering it neatly.

  

  Om Malik
  • Business

• For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Information
  • Useful
  • Dynamic

• The greatest joy in getting ready for the film is that there aren't many reference points for the journey and you've got to define it for yourself.

  

  William Fichtner
  • Joy
  • Film
  • Journey

• If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you're able to do it.

  

  Jocko Willink