William H. McRaven Quotes
You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
Quotes to Explore
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
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Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.
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Producers should have the courage of their convictions. See your project through to its fruition. Seek help and be generous enough to take on collaborators and not be territorial as you're learning.
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You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
