Jocko Willink Quotes

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

Jocko Willink

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GoodDisciplineEarlyFirstUp

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

Jim Evans

MyselfWorldGameEnergyEnthusiasm

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler

NatureTimeWayEverythingHappening

I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.

Melissa de la Cruz

LifeThinkThoughtSexBloodAlways

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

Meta Golding

TrainingSchoolHigh SchoolThink

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

Amanda Harlech

FearPeopleThinkSayWantMost

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.

Tom Stoppard

LoveSimpleWomanPeopleHusband

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Mike Fitzpatrick

PeopleLuxuryBackTaxWhoThen

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Dolly Parton

MoralsValuesLostPrinciplesDays

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

Demi Moore

MeInterestingHollywoodCelebrity

Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They weren't wanting to necessarily support an acting career; it's a really fickle business, and it can be difficult and unstable. They were rooting for education and the whole nine yards.

Portia Doubleday

FamilyEducationBusinessSupport

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked 'One Life to Live.'

Tika Sumpter

LifeLivePassionServiceDayBoss

Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.

Mother Angelica

I AmMeGoHimCarryTake

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