William H. McRaven Quotes
And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
Quotes to Explore
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year.
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It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
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The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.
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And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
