Jocko Willink Quotes

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

Jocko Willink

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  • Nationality: american

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LeadershipTimeAngryBetterYou

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John F. Kennedy

TimeToolCouchMustUse

The Clash were the first big love of my life. Lyrically, they inspired me to get out, explore life, and maybe kick some doors down.

John Niven

LifeLoveMeMy LifeDoorsDown

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

LifeChangeBestDeathDestination

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.

Tom Hicks

WinTryingYearYouFansJust

I don't try to worry about sounding like anybody because I know I have my own tone, my own sound. It's just about being honest in a song and trying to relate myself or how to basically break it down as simple as possible for someone to try to understand it. Not being too deep, not being too shallow at the same time.

Ro James

TimeMyselfSimpleSongDeepWorry

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Mary Shelley

MyselfTreeSoulI AmSurviveSoon

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

Desmond Dekker

MeWriteSeeI SeeSongsHappening

The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.

Chris O'Donnell

TimePeopleCrazyWorldCareer

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

Bobby Hull

PeopleMeThinkFeelEnoughSaid

Ty Burrell could be one of the funniest people on the planet. I'd love to meet him.

Brooke Elliott

LovePeopleMeetHimPlanetCould

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

Wynton Marsalis

PeopleDemocracyPotentialAmerican

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

William Jackson

TodayChildrenMeTelevisionUp

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