Jocko Willink Quotes

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Jocko Willink

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I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

Jimi Hendrix

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Astronomers can look back in time. We can look at things as they used to be. We have an idea there was a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago. We have a story of how galaxies and stars were made. It's an amazing story.

John C. Mather

StarsTimeAmazingStoryLookBack

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

Joel Kinnaman

FamilyGoodMotherPeopleFriends

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

John Cornyn

PoliticalRunAskPoliticiansShould

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

SuccessManLovedLivedWellWho

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

Stephen Kinzer

GreatStepWorldBringTakeUnited

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Tom Hayden

HistoryToo MuchCivil RightsRights

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

Michel Patini

GreatPastMemoryWorldImportant

American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.

Juan Gabriel

MusicWorldAmericanEnoughMexican

I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.

Joshua Bell

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When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

Joni Mitchell

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For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.

Craig Ferguson

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