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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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.
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So in the act of giving, we distinguish ourselves from ourselves. In giving, we give ourselves and still remain ourselves.
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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.
