Jocko Willink Quotes

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Jocko Willink

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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  • Nationality: american

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StrengthTalentPeopleWorldEnough

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

Ani DiFranco

CultureYouthThinkBackDaysUs

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.

John Vanbrugh

HeartWomanRestYouNeverHer

In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

Tony Lema

PartnerAlwaysOptimistPick

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost.

Tom Douglas

WifeStartProfitPriceGoTry

I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

Robyn Davidson

RespectSomeoneWantBored

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

MyselfWorldSelfPressureFeelWay

I know Geno Atkins is a big anime fan. Cameron Jordan, Larry Warford, my boy Adam Gettis is a big anime fan.

Mike Daniels

KnowBoyBigFanJordanAnime

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

Michael N. Castle

RealityChoiceUniversitySocial

An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former Presidents Clinton and Bush.

Mitt Romney

CareAmericaFirstHaitiEarthquake

I don't know what it is about these post-apocalyptic movies where it's like... people really want to see what happens and know what goes on in people's minds when they lose everything. With nothing left of what we had, do people revert back to animals or stay civilized?

Joseph David-Jones

PeopleLoseBackKnowWantMovies

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

Joseph Brodsky

HistoryArtPoetryPoliticalMore

I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave me something that made me feel good, and it was music, and it was peaceful, and not a lot of the other stresses of life.

Dorothy Hamill

LifeLoveGoodMusicMeFeel Good

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