Jim Mattis Quotes

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

Jim Mattis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1950

Topics

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The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles away, can be seen from the eight observation areas of the Seagram Tower.

Joan Lingard

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'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.

Jenny Zhang

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Once you go up in weight, I will never go down; you just don't do it.

Andre Ward

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To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.

John Lithgow

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Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

Robert Griffin III

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As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down.

Stephanie Coontz

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I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

Slash

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Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

Mike Judge

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Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Chris Hadfield

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You can't be in the locker room reading 'League of Denial.'

Chris Borland

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Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Colm Toibin

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Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments, more data and better data hone our understanding further. Social, cultural, economic, and political context are relevant to our understanding of how science works.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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