David Goggins Quotes
If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing it, usually you can’t achieve it.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I have fabulous children.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
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In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
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There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is and how great it is to raise kids Jewish, these people are going to raise their kids Jewish. Ultimately, that's all that matters.
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing it, usually you can’t achieve it.
