John O. Brennan Quotes

U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers.

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• I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame

• When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Cool

• I'm quite good at not writing.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Quite

• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • Thought
  • First

• Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Maybe
  • Arena
  • Insecurities

• It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

  

  Ouida
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mother

• The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Better

• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Enough

• You can observe a lot by watching.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Watching

• I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Food

• I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Always
  • First
  • Something

• The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Society

• No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Experience
  • Leadership

• About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Know
  • Me
  • Like

• It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Outfit
  • Compensate

• I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child.

  

  Amy Robach
  • Live
  • Age
  • Attention

• Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!

  

  David Brin
  • Life
  • Age
  • Society

• Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Courage

• I had no friends. I worried a lot.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Friends

• In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you're at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.

  

  Marco Arment
  • Environment

• U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Daily